Patchday Briefings

A briefing is a scheduled, AI-generated upgrade guide for every app you track. Instead of a notification for each individual release, Patchday compares the version you're running against the latest one and tells you what it would take to upgrade: what breaks, what to do about it, and how risky the jump is.

New to Patchday? The Get your first briefing checklist on your dashboard walks you through the three things a briefing needs: an app, a marked version, and a schedule.

How briefings work

When a briefing runs, Patchday looks at each tracked app where you've marked the release you're currently running (see Marking your running version) — apps without a marked version are skipped. For every app that has newer releases, it generates an upgrade guide covering four things:

• Breaking changes between your version and the latest
• Migration steps to get from one to the other
• A risk assessment explaining what to watch out for
• A risk level — low, medium, high, or critical

All of the guides from a single run are collected on the Briefings page and sent to you in one digest email, so a busy update week lands as a single message rather than a flood of alerts.

Scheduling a briefing

Briefings are configured alongside your other notification settings.

1. Go to Notifications in the sidebar.
2. Turn on the Patchday Briefing toggle.
3. Choose a frequency:
   • Weekly, then pick the day of the week it should run.
   • Monthly, then pick whether it runs on the 1st or the 15th.
4. Check the Time zone. Patchday fills it in from your browser the first time you sign in; change it if it's wrong. Your briefing arrives around 06:00 in that time zone on the day you picked.

Your choice saves automatically. Turn the toggle off any time to pause briefings; when you turn it back on, pick your frequency and day again.

To stop briefings straight from your inbox, use the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any digest email, or your email app's own unsubscribe button. You don't need to sign in. Right after unsubscribing you can turn briefings back on with your previous schedule; after that, set them up again here.

Every plan can use weekly and monthly briefings.

The Briefings page

Open Briefings from the sidebar to read every upgrade guide Patchday has generated for you. Each guide is a collapsible card showing the app, the version range it covers, and a color-coded risk badge. Expand a card to read the full breaking-changes, migration, and risk breakdown.

If no briefing has run yet, the page explains why: the same checklist as the dashboard if you still need to add an app, mark a version, or set a schedule, or, once everything is set, the date your next briefing is due and a reminder that it only covers apps with a newer release than the version you run.

If you've had briefings before but none is current, for example because every app is up to date, the page says when your next briefing is due, or links to your briefing schedule if briefings are off or your schedule can't run.

Risk levels

Every guide carries one of four risk levels, shown as a colored badge:

• Low (green) — routine update, little to watch for.
• Medium (amber) — some changes worth reading before you upgrade.
• High (red) — meaningful breaking changes; plan the upgrade.
• Critical (bold red) — significant breakage; read the guide carefully first.

The latest risk level for each app also appears on its dashboard card, so you can spot a risky update at a glance.

Rating a guide

Each guide card has thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. Use them to tell us whether a guide was helpful. Your rating is yours alone, so guides shared across users keep independent feedback. Tap the same button again to clear it.

The digest email

Once every guide in a run has finished generating, Patchday sends one email with the full briefing: every app, every upgrade guide, risk levels and all. It's the same content you'd see on the Briefings page, dropped straight into your inbox so you can read it without logging in.