I currently use IFTTT to do this, but I use the ATOM feed that appears on all release pages.

So you can use https://github.com/da-x/git-bottle/releases.atom as the feed, then have it email you.

It would be nice to have native support for this.

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Related to #68

Quite similar to isaacs/github#410

Hi, I’ve created the project of my own, that enables notifications to your email and/or Slack account from GitHub and 8 more other programming platforms. Check it out here: https://newreleases.io. Hope it helps.

I have an opposite request. I'd like to unfollow automated releases from our merge bot. And still watch everything else.

GitHub now offers to watch releases only!

True. It's accessible from the 'Watch' drop-down.

It appears that "watch releases only" doesn't follow tags and many projects use only tags for announcing new versions. While https://newreleases.io sends notifications for tags too, it also has several version filtering options, based on regex expressions, pre and updated releases. It also offers email frequency options.

It appears that "watch releases only" doesn't follow tags and many projects use only tags for announcing new versions.

Including CPython, and it would be great to know when a new release is made.

I opened a new issue for subscribing to tags (despite this issue being closed, it's only possible to follow "releases", and not "tags"): #399

Hi, I’ve created the project of my own, that enables notifications to your email and/or Slack account from GitHub and 8 more other programming platforms. Check it out here: https://newreleases.io. Hope it helps.

I've been using that, but honestly, it's too many clicks from the e-mail I get to the being able to see what's new in the release.