Monthly "What's New in .NET docs" articles no longer exist

[Abdragiz]

Describe the issue or suggestion

The landing page at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/whats-new/ has been restructured — it no longer links to monthly documentation update articles and only shows release-based "What's New" content (.NET 11, .NET 10, etc.).

The "Generate what's new article" GitHub Actions workflow, which was responsible for creating a PR on the first of every month, also appears to have been removed from the repository.

However, the README.md still references this workflow:

Generate what's new article: Creates a PR to generate the "What's new" article on the first of every month.

Why this matters

These monthly articles were a valuable resource for .NET developers who wanted to stay informed about documentation changes without tracking every individual commit. They provided:

• A concise monthly summary of new and updated articles
• An easy way to catch up on documentation changes — especially useful for those who read them in bulk every few months

Request

1. Was the removal of these monthly articles an intentional decision? If so, could you share the reasoning?
2. If intentional, please consider bringing them back — they were a genuinely useful way to track the evolution of .NET documentation.
3. Regardless of the above, the README.md should be updated to remove the reference to the now-deleted "Generate what's new article" workflow.

[BillWagner]

Hi @Abdragiz

Yes, removing the "What's new in docs" was intentional. There were two main reasons:

1. Some readers expressed confusion between the "What's New" in the product pages and the "What's New" in the docs pages.
2. We'd been watching the traffic, and the "What's new in docs" pages had been continually getting less traffic month-over-month.

Because of that, we stopped running the action, reviewing and publishing those docs.

I'll keep this open to update the readme. I'll also add the "discussion" label if others want to add more opinions.