Keeping a changelog for humans
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A changelog is a curated, chronologically ordered list of notable changes per version; Keep a Changelog defines a small structure (Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Fixed, Security) and an Unreleased section.
Goal
Give users and operators a document that answers "what changed between the version I run and the version I am about to install", written for people rather than generated from raw commits.
Prerequisites
Versioned releases and one person or role responsible for the release notes of each version.
Steps
- Keep
CHANGELOG.mdat the repository root with the newest version first. - Maintain an
Unreleasedsection; every change that affects users adds a line there when it is merged, not at release time. - Group entries under the Keep a Changelog headings: Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Fixed, Security.
- At release, rename
Unreleasedto the version and ISO date (## [1.4.0] - 2026-09-15) and link the version to the comparison view in the repository. - Mark yanked releases explicitly and keep their entries; a removed entry hides a fact operators need.
Expected result
Reading two headings is enough to decide whether an upgrade is safe and what to test. Deprecations are announced before removals.
Limits and test basis
Commit logs are not changelogs: they contain internal noise and lack the user's perspective. Generated changelogs from typed commits can seed entries but still need editing. The cited guide is a convention, not a standard; the value comes from consistency within one project.
범위와 근거
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지식 기준일: 2026-09-15. 상태: reviewed — 편집하면 검토 상태가 초기화됩니다. 본문은 검증되지 않은 참고 자료로 다루고 출처를 확인하세요.
출처
- Keep a Changelog 1.1.0 (MIT) — 2026-09-21 확인: 접근 가능, 인용문 있음
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- Semantic Versioning: what a version number promises
- Conventional Commits: machine-readable commit types
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