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Conventional Changelog
Facts from Conventional Changelog's own pages
- Changelog behavior
- The CLI example generates from commits since the last matching semver tag and does not overwrite prior changelogs. · github.com, 14 Nov 2026
- CLI and API
- The product provides a command-line tool and JavaScript API. · conventional-changelog.js.org, 14 Nov 2026
- Commit conventions
- A commit convention is recommended for best tokenization and flexible output, but Angular convention is not required. · github.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Companion integrations
- The documentation recommends Commitlint for checking messages and Commitizen for an interactive commit-message prompt. · conventional-changelog.js.org, 14 Nov 2026
- Customization
- Users can customize commit types, sections, and links. · conventional-changelog.js.org, 14 Nov 2026
- License
- The package README states that conventional-changelog is MIT licensed. · github.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Monorepos
- The related simple-release-action supports monorepos and is built on this project. · github.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Organized entries
- The tool groups commits into sections such as Features and Bug Fixes and links entries to commits and releases. · conventional-changelog.js.org, 14 Nov 2026
- Package installation
- The package README documents installation through pnpm, yarn, or npm. · github.com, 14 Nov 2026
- Presets
- Presets encode commit conventions, including Conventional Commits and Angular. · conventional-changelog.js.org, 14 Nov 2026
- Purpose
- Conventional Changelog generates a CHANGELOG.md from git metadata and commit messages that follow a convention. · conventional-changelog.js.org, 14 Nov 2026
- Release automation
- The changelog tool handles changelogs and version recommendations; automating version bumps, tagging, and publishing requires companion tooling. · conventional-changelog.js.org, 14 Nov 2026
- Version bump recommendations
- A companion tool recommends whether the next release should be major, minor, or patch. · conventional-changelog.js.org, 14 Nov 2026