draft-release-notes

Generate release notes automatically by extracting and summarizing git commit history since a specified tag boundary. The tool filters out merges and build-only changes to produce clean, user-facing summaries.

Yes, you can create changelog entries for a custom range by specifying a from-tag to to-tag span. It also supports generating notes from a specific tag to HEAD or from the latest tag to HEAD.

Format git commits into Keep a Changelog categories by grouping commit-derived changes under user-facing sections. It includes Added, Changed, Fixed, Security, Deprecated, and Removed sections only when entries exist.

Yes, release note generation omits PR numbers and commit hashes to improve user readability. It produces notes describing what users can see or do while filtering out version-bump noise.

Draft user-facing release notes without manual formatting by using an automated summarizer that processes git history. It applies Keep a Changelog conventions and formats output with a version date header.

Yes, you can filter out merge commits and build-only changes when summarizing git history. The tool automatically excludes this noise to ensure the final release notes focus only on user-facing modifications.