How do you generate release notes?

Question

Programming

Good afternoon, dear experts!
Could you please share how you form release notes for the developed software products? Do you do it automatically or manually? What means do you use?
Current Environment: There is JIRA, a project in a Git repository on TFS 2013 and most likely Jenkins soon.

Answer 1

When using tags, creating and naming pull requests, developers follow a certain "pattern".
For example:
Feature 341: Add new css style
And then, get messages from all merge commits, before release, between the last tag and the current HEAD (this is the maser branch):
git log --merges --pretty=format:%b v1.0.7 ..HEAD
This can also be added to Jenkins or Teamcity like we have.