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Keep a changelog

If you build software, keep a changelog.

From olivierlacan·Updated June 29, 2026·View on GitHub·

[![Keep a Changelog v1.1.0 badge][changelog-badge]][changelog] [![Version 1.1.0 Badge][version-badge]][changelog] [![MIT License Badge][license-badge]][license] The project is written primarily in Haml, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2014. It has gained significant community traction with 6,621 stars and 3,556 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: changelog, git, history, markdown, release.

Latest release: v1.1.1v1.1.1 — Many new translations, centralized links, and more
March 6, 2023View Changelog →

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Don’t let your friends dump git logs into changelogs™

This repository generates https://keepachangelog.com/.

Development

Dependencies

Installation

  • git clone https://github.com/olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog.git
  • cd keep-a-changelog
  • bundle install
  • bin/rake serve starts a local development server at http://localhost:4567
    which will reload with any local file changes
  • bin/rake build runs middleman build with --verbose flag so build errors are
    logged for easier debugging

Deployment

  • bin/rake clean can clean a corrupted build/ directory in
    case publish failed
  • bin/rake deploy cleans, builds and pushes to the gh-pages branch on GitHub so
    the site is deployed to keepachangelog.com

Translations

Create a new directory in source/ named after the ISO 639-1 code
for the language you wish to translate Keep a Changelog to. For example,
assuming you want to translate to French Canadian:

  • create the source/fr-CA directory.
  • duplicate the source/en/1.0.0/index.html.haml file in source/fr-CA.
  • edit source/fr-CA/1.0.0/index.html.haml until your translation is ready.
  • commit your changes to your own fork
  • submit a Pull Request with your changes

It may take some time to review your submitted Pull Request. Try to involve a
few native speakers of the language you're translating to in the Pull Request
comments. They'll help review your translation for simple mistakes and give us
a better idea of whether your translation is accurate.

Contribute

Please do contribute! Issues and pull requests are welcome.

Thank you for your help improving software one changelog at a time!

Contributors

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This article is auto-generated from olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog via the GitHub API.Last fetched: 6/29/2026