Changelog !!hot!!

Even well-intentioned teams can produce bad changelogs. Watch out for these mistakes:

A useful is a curated record designed for humans to understand how a project has evolved. Unlike a raw Git commit history, a high-quality changelog focuses on the impact of changes rather than the internal technical implementation. Core Principles for Useful Content CHANGELOG

Maintaining a changelog by hand works well for small projects, but as team size and commit volume grow, automation becomes attractive. Even well-intentioned teams can produce bad changelogs

Highly engaging; great for marketing; explicitly focuses on user value. automation becomes attractive. Highly engaging

Reserved for entirely new features, capabilities, or modules introduced to the software.

Incremented when you make incompatible API changes or introduce severe breaking changes (found under Removed or Changed ).