The changelog LaTeX pack­age

Changel­ogs are im­por­tant. Un­for­tu­nately, there are few fa­cil­i­ties for type­set­ting changel­ogs in LaTeX. changelog de­fines a changelog en­vi­ron­ment to make changel­ogs sim­ple and in­tu­itive.

In­spired by keep­achangelog.com.

Ex­am­ple

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[color]{changelog}
\begin{document}

\begin{changelog}[author=Rebecca Turner]
\begin{version}
  \added Really cool features
\end{version}

\begin{version}[date=2019-01-23]
  \item A version with only a date
\end{version}

\begin{version}[v=1.1.0]
  \item A version with no date
\end{version}

\begin{version}[v=1.0.1, yanked]
  \item A version with a terrible bug
\end{version}

\begin{version}[v=1.0.0, date=2018-10-26]
  \added a cool feature
  \changed some \textsc{api} detail
  \deprecated something that was a bad idea in the first place
  \removed something that was deprecated 3 versions ago
  \fixed a bug that would delete files instead of saving them
  \security improved with addition of buffer bound checks
  \item A change that doesn't fit into any other category
\end{version}
\shortversion{v=0.1.0, date=2018-10-19,
  changes=Initial beta.}
\end{changelog}

\end{document}

Which ren­ders roughly as: