Generate GitLab release notes from Linear issues with Claude Opus

📝 Release Note Helper

Triggered by a GitLab MR webhook, this workflow automatically assists your team in writing customer-facing release notes by combining Linear issue data with Claude AI.

Apply the rn-release-n8n label to any release note MR in your docs repository to trigger it.

How it works

1. Version detection — reads your release RSS feed to find the last published version, then fetches all matching Linear version labels created since then to determine the version range automatically 2. Issue collection — queries Linear for all completed issues in that version range that have Zendesk tickets, Slack links, or custom labels (Customer request, Release note public) attached 3. Ticket summary — posts a structured list of all relevant issues to the MR as a comment 4. AI draft — sends issue details to Claude, which generates customer-facing changelog entries grouped into Enhancements and Fixes, posted as a second MR comment 5. Done label — adds rn-done to the MR when complete to prevent re-runs

Setup

1. Configure a GitLab webhook on your docs repo pointing to this workflow's URL (Merge Request events) 2. Create two labels on your GitLab repo: rn-release-n8n (to trigger) and rn-done (auto-applied on completion) 3. Update the RSS Read node URL to your release RSS feed 4. Replace YOURPROJECTID in all GitLab API nodes with your docs project ID 5. Replace YOURWORKSPACE in the Code nodes with your Linear workspace slug 6. Connect Linear API, GitLab API, and Anthropic API credentials

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