conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog
Generate changelogs and release notes from a project's commit messages and metadata. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0.0
- age_days: 4624
- days_rel: 15
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 101
Adoption not part of the score
8502 stars · 742 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
A family of Node.js tools that generate CHANGELOG.md files and release notes from git commit history following conventions like Conventional Commits. It includes a CLI, a chainable JS API, and composable parser/filter/writer packages, plus a recommended version bump tool.
Use cases
- generate changelog from git commit messages
- automate release notes from conventional commits
- determine next semver version bump from commits
- write CHANGELOG.md for npm package releases
- generate changelogs for monorepo packages
- integrate changelog generation into CI/CD release pipeline
When to choose
- your project follows Conventional Commits or Angular commit conventions
- you want automated, grouped, linked changelogs without hand-editing
- you need a JS API to build custom release tooling
- you want commit history to drive major/minor/patch version decisions
When to avoid
- your commit history is unstructured and you can't adopt a commit convention
- you need a full release automation tool rather than changelog generation (consider semantic-release or commit-and-tag-version built on top)
- your project doesn't use git
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli developer-tools documentation parser version-control workflow-automation developer-tools version-control documentation cli cross-platform changelog conventional-commits git release-notes semver monorepo automation nodejs
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog · fetched 2026-08-28 · 943e5e4b1e0f
- homepage: http://conventional-changelog.js.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · ce81ec75d1fb
- site_page: https://conventional-changelog.js.org/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 49f99662cf24
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/conventional-changelog · fetched 2026-08-29 · d465276623da
- site_page: https://conventional-changelog.js.org/conventional-changelog/cli · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8c7c607e17e8
- site_page: https://conventional-changelog.js.org/conventional-changelog/api · fetched 2026-08-29 · 287c34150736
- site_page: https://conventional-changelog.js.org/changelog-writer · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5adf7884fdc4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog | main | 95 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="conventional-changelog/conventional-changelog")
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