Michael Dowling has a new post today with a new tool he's worked up that aims to make creating Changelogs simpler, building on the effort started by keepachangelog.com. A Changelog is a human-readable listing of changes between versions, ideally generated but usually manually created.

Open source projects often include some kind of changelog file that helps consumers of the project know the important changes that have been made between versions. The format and filename of a changelog typically varies from project to project; however, there’s some promising news…http://keepachangelog.com hopes to standardize how open source projects represent changelog files. I’ve recently begun modifying the changelog files of all of my projects to conform to this new changelog standard.

He then gets into the tool he's created, chag, and how to aims to help make this Changelog standardization even easier. He walks you through the installation and options it provides for extracting current contents, listing versions, getting the latest versions and updating the contents. There's also an option to tag the version with a Git tag and uses the entry data as the annotation. He then talks about the release process with two different flows: the one GitHub itself includes (GitHub Releases) and the other configured through Travis CI.