forge-update-changelog

You can automate changelog updates by parsing recent git commits, filtering for user-facing changes like features and fixes, grouping them into categories, and writing a timestamped entry to the top of your changelog file.

Generating release notes from conventional commits involves reading recent project commits, filtering for feat, fix, and perf prefixes, and grouping them into intuitive categories to produce concise, plain-language changelog entries.

To keep your CHANGELOG.md accurate during development cycles, collect commits since the last update, identify user-facing changes, ignore internal-only edits, and prepend a new timestamped section with categorized release notes.

Yes, you can filter internal-only commits when updating documentation by selecting only user-facing changes such as feat, fix, and perf commits, while ignoring internal edits to generate plain-language entries for end users.

Yes, automated changelog generation can work without external dependencies by directly reading the current changelog file, gathering recent git commits, and writing grouped user-facing changes back to the file.

Changelog entries may not group correctly if commit messages lack conventional prefixes like feat, fix, or perf, which are required to filter and categorize user-facing changes into New Features, Improvements, Bug Fixes, and Performance sections.