Introduction

HashiCorp offers flexible ways to stay informed about product releases. This article covers three notification options for your convenience.

Expected Outcome

Get notified when a new release for your chosen product is available. 

Prerequisites

At least one of the following options is necessary to receive release notifications.

• GitHub user account
• Discuss user account
• Knowledge of API and its usage

Use Cases

Discuss: A community-based forum with multiple use cases, one of which allows a way to be notified of a product release.

GitHub: Most, if not all, HashiCorp customers use GitHub as a place to see information related to their products.  Users may select an option to be notified of releases via GitHub; however, that will not include the enterprise version since they are not publicly available. 

HashiCorp Releases API: Programmatically provides a way to become notified when a release happens or it can be used as a way to check releases in a one-off manner

Procedures

Discuss

Subscribe to the Release Notifications Category

1. Navigate to https://discuss.hashicorp.com
2. Click the Sign In button
   1. If you don't have an account, you may Sign up for one or sign in with your GitHub account
3. After logging in, go to the Release Notifications category, which provides a way to be notified for all product releases from HashiCorp
   1. Simply click on the bell icon to select your notification preference
4. This will enable notifications for all HashiCorp products. To customize your notifications further, continue to the next section.

Using Tags to limit notifications

To fine-tune your notifications and avoid information overload, use tags! You can add, remove, or even mute specific tags to ensure you only receive the most relevant updates. Feel free to experiment – it might take a bit of tweaking to find your perfect notification balance.

1. Navigate to your Preferences under the user profile
   
2. Go to Tracking
   
3. Make updates to the tracking under the Tags section
   

   HINT: Open an existing post, under Release Notifications, for the products of interest and review the tags that were used
   

   
    
4. Click the Save Changes button

GitHub

1. Navigate to the HashiCorp GitHub repo and sign in
2. Select the product you want to get a release notification for
3. Click the dropdown arrow on Watch and select Custom
   
4. Click the checkbox next to Releases and click the Apply button
   

HashiCorp Release API

Start by reviewing the Blog post Announcing the HashiCorp Releases API

API Documents: Hashicorp Releases 

Additional Information

Prefer to browse releases on your own? Visit releases.hashicorp.com to explore our release archives.

• Core product binary pages
  • Boundary
  • Consul
  • Nomad
  • Packer
  • Terraform
  • Vagrant
  • Vault
  • Waypoint