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Changelog projects on GitHub

Automatic changelog generation from conventional commits and releases.

As of , the most-starred Changelog projects on GitHub are semantic-release (24.1K stars), core (22K stars) and git-extras (18.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 6 Changelog repositories with 105K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was git-cliff, with +3 stars in a day.

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6 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · semantic-release/semantic-release

    semantic-release

    semantic-release is a tool that fully automates version management, changelog generation, and package publishing based on your commit messages.

    24.1K
  2. #2 · dotnet/core

    core

    The official home of .NET release notes and news: a table of every version under active support or development, with release dates, support phases, latest patch versions, and links to the full notes.

    22K
  3. #3 · tj/git-extras

    git-extras

    git-extras is a collection of extra Git commands that add missing conveniences: repo summaries, a changelog generator, release tagging, author contribution stats, and more.

    18.1K
  1. 4

    swift-evolution

    15.9Kswiftlang/swift-evolution · Markdown

    This is the Swift Evolution repository: it tracks how the Swift programming language, its standard library, and its package manager evolve, one proposal at a time.

  2. 5

    changesets

    12.5Kchangesets/changesets · TypeScript

    Changesets is a tool that manages versioning and changelogs for JavaScript/TypeScript projects, with a focus on monorepos. Contributors declare how their changes should be released, and Changesets handles bumping package versions, writing changelogs, and publishing.

  3. 6

    git-cliff

    12.3Korhun/git-cliff · Rust

    git-cliff is a highly customizable changelog generator that builds changelog files from your Git commit history, following the Conventional Commits specification and the Keep a Changelog format.

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