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Conventional Release Notes

A conventional-changelog preset for efficient and descriptive release notes

Commit Message Format

For generating proper release notes, the commit messages should follow the conventional commits spec. A commit message consists of a header, body and footer. The header has a type, scope and subject:

<type>(<scope>): <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>
<type>[optional scope]: <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer(s)]

Types include and are limited to:

Type Version Bump Description and used for
feat minor New features
fix patch Fixing bugs
revert patch Reverting commits
perf patch Performance improvements
refactor patch Refactoring code without changing functionality
build patch Build-system changes (deps, webpack, etc.)
chore patch General chores like version bump, merges, etc
ci patch CI/CD related changes
docs none Documentation
test none Adding/improving tests
style none Code-style, formatting, white-space, etc
  • !: A commit that appends a ! after the type/scope, introduces a breaking API change. A BREAKING CHANGE can be part of commits of any type and introduces a major version bump.
  • A scope of norelease with any commit message type will not bump a release version.

The header is mandatory and the scope of the header is optional.

Revert

If the commit reverts a previous commit, it should begin with revert: , followed by the header of the reverted commit. In the body it should say: This reverts commit <hash>., where the hash is the SHA of the commit being reverted.

Type

If the prefix is feat, fix, perf, refactor, build or any of the above types, it will appear in the changelog. However if there is any BREAKING CHANGE, the commit will also appear in the release notes with a Breaking Changes header.

Other prefixes are up to your discretion. Suggested prefixes are build, ci, docs ,style, refactor, and test for non-changelog related tasks.

Details regarding these types can be found in the official Angular Contributing Guidelines.

Scope

The scope could be anything specifying place or component of the commit change.

Subject

The subject contains succinct description of the change:

  • use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
  • don't capitalize first letter
  • no dot (.) at the end

Body

Just as in the subject, use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes". The body should include the motivation for the change and contrast this with previous behavior.

Footer

The footer should contain any information about Breaking Changes and is also the place to reference GitHub issues that this commit Closes.

Breaking Changes should start with the word BREAKING CHANGE: with a space or two newlines. The rest of the commit message is then used for this.

A detailed explanation can be found in this document.

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