Comment by Winipedia

I used to autobump the version in the release, but this prevents one from thinking about their versioning and just release everything with that autobump, so lets say the autobump is minor, you might release major changes or patches as minor changes, so I decided to not do that automatically. And for the changelog I decided to just use the automatic changelog that github can produce for simplicity. However it would not be difficult to add those things via a plugin if one wanted to