Send releases to Slack

Get a Slack message every time an org or product you follow ships a release. No app to install — you paste a Slack incoming webhook URL and releases.sh posts to it.

1. Create a Slack incoming webhook

In Slack, create an incoming webhook for the channel you want releases posted to. Slack gives you a URL that looks like https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.

2. Connect it on releases.sh

Open Notifications, find the Slack section, paste the webhook URL, and click Create. That's it — you'll get a Slack message for everything you follow.

Use the Test button to post a sample message and confirm the channel is wired up.

What the message looks like

Each release is posted as a compact Slack message: a linked title, a short summary, and a context line with the organization's avatar and date.

Keep the URL private

Slack webhooks are unsigned — the URL itself is the secret. No signing key is issued and no signature headers are sent. Treat the URL like a password. To rotate it, remove the Slack connection and create a new one with a fresh URL.

Supported hosts

The URL host must be hooks.slack.com (standard and Enterprise Grid) or hooks.slack-gov.com (GovSlack). Other hosts are rejected.

Need more control?

For org-specific alerts, release-type filters, or the raw signed JSON payload, use Webhooks & API.