Changelogs are really difficult to do properly. The concept of a "release" is fuzzy in a world of continuous deployment, and feature flags and experiments mean that different customers are seeing different features. The release of the client that can support the feature is often very divorced from the enablement of the feature. This is not a new phenomenon and has been something we struggled with way back in 2013 in my first SaaS job. Even if you do have a defined set of changes, the way modern software releases work means that the changelog is often the only reason to collect and document those all in one place, and not always a sufficiently compelling one to justify gathering and coordinating this information across teams in a large organization.
Anyway, time to go go see if Claude's done drafting that changelog I asked it to do...
Anyway, time to go go see if Claude's done drafting that changelog I asked it to do...