Changelog

3.0.1 (2026-09-02)

• Fix: Catch wrong setting type

3.0.0 (2026-09-02)

• Feature: Auto-commit CHANGELOG.md and move tag to include CHANGELOG.md in the tag’s range (opt-out by setting)

2.6.2 (2026-09-02)

• README: Update example for multiple Git tags

2.6.1 (2026-09-01)

• README wording, typos

2.6.0 (2026-09-01)

• Feature: Print commit links as Markdown reference-style links

2.5.0 (2026-09-01)

• Feature: Use commit date to group commits (additionally to tags)

2.4.1 (2026-09-01)

• README: wording

2.4.0 (2026-09-01)

• Feature: Support Git notes

2.3.0 (2026-09-01)

• Feature: Use commit date as group date if no tag is given (opt with setting to “current date”)

2.2.2 (2026-09-01)

• README: Clarify: Independent of special commit conventions
• README: Fix: Description of used date (commit date)

2.2.1 (2026-08-26)

• Fix: Handling RegExp in settings, especially flags

2.2.0 (2026-08-26)

• Deprecate: “Merged Branches” (intentional “no-ff” merges)
• README: Clarify: Any kind of tag naming possible
• README: clarify special handling for merged branches

2.1.0 (2026-08-22)

• README: Clarify: Git remote must be defined for current branch to be used
  • Note: ! Wrong commit message (not changeable): Must be “README: Git tags: No dfference for lightweight vs. annotated branches“
• Feature: Support multiple tags on the same commit

2.0.1 (2026-08-22)

• README: Clarify: Git remote must be defined for current branch to be used

2.0.0 (2026-08-22)

• Feature: Require tag (depending on setting requireTag): Reject creating a Changelog if commits without associated Git tag exist

1.6.2 (2026-08-22)

• Feature: Write newest changelog entries also to README.md: add: Write HTML comment informing that content was inserted by commits-to-changelog
• Feature: Write newest changelog entries also to README.md: display if no tag asscociated: only date
• fix: internal handling of EOF while searching for a section “Changelog” in README.md
• Feature: Write newest changelog entries also to README.md: fix: reject string containing more than a positive integer as value for “linesToReadme”
• Feature: Write newest changelog entries also to README.md: clarify: linesToReadme = 0 / false / undefined leaves an existing section “Changelog” untouched

1.6.1 (2026-08-21)

• Filter commits: optional default filtering case insensitive

1.6.0 (2026-08-21)

• Typo
• Update README
• Feature: Allow to have no package.json at all
• Feature: Allow non-semver tags
• Feature: Allow to have no package.json version = use package.json version only if given
• Feature: Compare pkg.version and latestTag only for possible headerDefault change only if both are non-labeled SemVer

1.5.1 (2026-08-20)

• HOTFIX: Internal execution control did not work with global installation

1.5.0 (2026-08-20)

• Feature: Write newest changelog entries also to README.md in same directory if this has a section Changelog (case insensitive), number of entries via setting, default: 0 = do not try to write to README.md

1.4.2 (2026-08-15)

• Fix getting lastest tag: avoid wrong order / wrong branch = allowing multiple branches and restrospective tags
• Change module system from CommonJS to ESM

1.4.1 (2026-08-13)

• Feature: Replace dependency compare-versions by own function

1.4.0 (2026-08-12)

• Filter commits: Exclude commits / commit types via RegExp against commit messages

1.3.0 (2026-08-11)

• Revert undocumented optional argument –stage (was just formally inherited from git-to-changelog)
• Feature: Read settings from package.json

1.2.0 (2026-08-11)

• Change title for merged branches from opionated “Implement” to more neutral “Include (results of) separate branch”
• Improve error handling

1.1.0 (2026-08-11)

• Change default title for group of commits from “Latest” to more neutral “Current”
• README: Clarify: Existing CHANGELOG.md will be overwritten
• README: Clarify handling of merged branches

1.0.2 (2026-08-06)

• Small fixes

1.0.1 (2026-08-01)

• Fix: Crash comparePkgVersion if no pkgVers available
• Get commitURI from “git remote” instead of package.json

1.0.0 (2026-07-31)

• Fork from git-to-changelog with fix hardwired path ‘../../package.json’ to process.cwd()+’/package.json’

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