release-notes

Automating release notes and changelog generation for a monorepo requires reading commit histories and PR summaries to format narrative RELEASE_NOTES.md and concise CHANGELOG.md files. This process standardizes documentation and preserves PR traceability during release cycles.

Release notes provide narrative explanations of change rationale and impact for product owners, while a changelog offers concise, PR-linked technical summaries suitable for developers, auditors, and release engineers. Both documents are generated simultaneously to serve distinct audiences.

Generating a changelog from squash-merge workflows with divergent git histories between main and develop branches is fully supported. The process aligns documentation with divergent histories to ensure consistency across multi-branch release cycles.

Creating PR-linked changelogs accessible to release engineers involves reading pull request summaries from the commit history and formatting them into a standardized CHANGELOG.md. This preserves traceability to the original pull requests for auditing purposes.

Automating release documentation works directly with multi-branch release cycles by handling divergent histories between branches. It generates both narrative release notes and concise changelogs to coordinate documentation across large monorepositories efficiently.