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🍷 Pairs with elastic/elastic-agent-changelog-tool#213

What does this PR do?

Adds generated Markdown Elastic Agent release notes here instead in the docs-content repo.

Why is it important?

Currently the Elastic Agent team generates release notes in AsciiDoc in this repo and the @elastic/ingest-docs team has to manually translate AsciiDoc to Markdown, copy to another repo (docs-content), split into multiple files, and integrate with Fleet Server release notes. This is time consuming for the docs team and often leads to delays in publishing release notes.

In elastic/elastic-agent-changelog-tool#213, I updated the automation to allow generating Markdown, formatting it, and putting it into the correct files directly using elastic-agent-changelog-tool. This is the elastic-agent output when generating the release notes using the colleenmcginnis:markdown branch of elastic-agent-changelog-tool.

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  • I have read and understood the pull request guidelines of this project.
  • My code follows the style guidelines of this project
  • I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
  • I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
  • I have made corresponding change to the default configuration files
  • I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
  • I have added an entry in ./changelog/fragments using the changelog tool
  • I have added an integration test or an E2E test

Disruptive User Impact

This approach to release notes would mean splitting the source files for Fleet Server and Elastic Agent release notes, but they would still live next to each other on the docs site.

Screenshot 2025-08-18 at 11 00 53 AM

How to test this PR locally

This repo is not currently hooked up to the docs build system so we don't have a PR preview yet, but you can build the docs locally.

Screenshot 2025-08-18 at 10 53 56 AM

Note: Right now it will build independently from the rest of the Release notes, but once this repo is hooked up to the docs build system, these release notes will be integrated into the larger Release notes table of contents.

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Questions to ask yourself

  • How are we going to support this in production?
  • How are we going to measure its adoption?
  • How are we going to debug this?
  • What are the metrics I should take care of?
  • ...

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colleenmcginnis pushed a commit to elastic/docs-content that referenced this pull request Sep 11, 2025
[do not merge!] Removes the combined Fleet Server and Elastic Agent r…
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…elease notes (#2818)

Related to https://github.com/elastic/docs-projects/issues/488
elastic/elastic-agent-changelog-tool#213,
elastic/elastic-agent#9440,
elastic/fleet-server#5374

⚠️ **DO NOT MERGE BEFORE
elastic/docs-builder#1830 IS BOTH MERGED AND
INCLUDED IN A NEW RELEASE** ⚠️

Removes the combined Fleet Server and Elastic Agent release notes in
favor of separate release notes in the fleet-server and elastic-agent
repos. This enables the dev team to own the release notes process.
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@karenzone karenzone added backport-9.0 Automated backport to the 9.0 branch backport-9.1 Automated backport to the 9.1 branch labels Sep 16, 2025
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[docs] Add Markdown release notes (#9440)
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* add config.changelog.yaml

* add changelog yml files

* check 9.1.2 output

* check 9.1.1 output

* check 9.1.0 output

* update 9.1.0.yaml

* check 9.0.5 output

* check 9.0.4 output

* check 9.0.3 output

* check 9.0.2 output

* check 9.0.1 output

* check 9.0.0 output

* clean up yaml files

* remaining formatting fixes

* add build out docs-builder content

* fix build errors

* add links to other pages

* add 9.0.6 release notes

* add 9.1.3 release notes

(cherry picked from commit 86fd0df)

# Conflicts:
#	changelog/9.0.1.yaml
#	changelog/9.0.2.yaml
#	changelog/9.0.3.yaml
#	changelog/9.0.6.yaml
#	docs/docset.yml
#	docs/release-notes/index.md
#	docs/release-notes/toc.yml
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[docs] Add Markdown release notes (#9440)
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* add config.changelog.yaml

* add changelog yml files

* check 9.1.2 output

* check 9.1.1 output

* check 9.1.0 output

* update 9.1.0.yaml

* check 9.0.5 output

* check 9.0.4 output

* check 9.0.3 output

* check 9.0.2 output

* check 9.0.1 output

* check 9.0.0 output

* clean up yaml files

* remaining formatting fixes

* add build out docs-builder content

* fix build errors

* add links to other pages

* add 9.0.6 release notes

* add 9.1.3 release notes

(cherry picked from commit 86fd0df)

# Conflicts:
#	changelog/9.1.0.yaml
#	changelog/9.1.3.yaml
#	docs/docset.yml
#	docs/release-notes/index.md
#	docs/release-notes/toc.yml
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[9.0](backport #9440) [docs] Add Markdown release notes (#9990)
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* [docs] Add Markdown release notes (#9440)

* add config.changelog.yaml

* add changelog yml files

* check 9.1.2 output

* check 9.1.1 output

* check 9.1.0 output

* update 9.1.0.yaml

* check 9.0.5 output

* check 9.0.4 output

* check 9.0.3 output

* check 9.0.2 output

* check 9.0.1 output

* check 9.0.0 output

* clean up yaml files

* remaining formatting fixes

* add build out docs-builder content

* fix build errors

* add links to other pages

* add 9.0.6 release notes

* add 9.1.3 release notes

(cherry picked from commit 86fd0df)

# Conflicts:
#	changelog/9.0.1.yaml
#	changelog/9.0.2.yaml
#	changelog/9.0.3.yaml
#	changelog/9.0.6.yaml
#	docs/docset.yml
#	docs/release-notes/index.md
#	docs/release-notes/toc.yml

* resolve conflicts

* remove 9.1.x references

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Co-authored-by: Colleen McGinnis <colleen.mcginnis@elastic.co>
colleenmcginnis pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 16, 2025
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[9.1] (backport #9440) [docs] Add Markdown release notes (#9991)
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* [docs] Add Markdown release notes (#9440)

* add config.changelog.yaml

* add changelog yml files

* check 9.1.2 output

* check 9.1.1 output

* check 9.1.0 output

* update 9.1.0.yaml

* check 9.0.5 output

* check 9.0.4 output

* check 9.0.3 output

* check 9.0.2 output

* check 9.0.1 output

* check 9.0.0 output

* clean up yaml files

* remaining formatting fixes

* add build out docs-builder content

* fix build errors

* add links to other pages

* add 9.0.6 release notes

* add 9.1.3 release notes

(cherry picked from commit 86fd0df)

# Conflicts:
#	changelog/9.1.0.yaml
#	changelog/9.1.3.yaml
#	docs/docset.yml
#	docs/release-notes/index.md
#	docs/release-notes/toc.yml

* fix conflicts

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Co-authored-by: Colleen McGinnis <colleen.mcginnis@elastic.co>
intxgo pushed a commit to intxgo/elastic-agent that referenced this pull request Sep 24, 2025
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[docs] Add Markdown release notes (elastic#9440)
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* add config.changelog.yaml

* add changelog yml files

* check 9.1.2 output

* check 9.1.1 output

* check 9.1.0 output

* update 9.1.0.yaml

* check 9.0.5 output

* check 9.0.4 output

* check 9.0.3 output

* check 9.0.2 output

* check 9.0.1 output

* check 9.0.0 output

* clean up yaml files

* remaining formatting fixes

* add build out docs-builder content

* fix build errors

* add links to other pages

* add 9.0.6 release notes

* add 9.1.3 release notes
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