v5.2.0-b01

🚀 Features

• Individual commit_template
  • PR: #1427
  • Thanks @selfdocumentingcode

🧪 Tests

• Upgrade remaining dependency | Fix jest setup
  • PR: #1426

📦 Dependencies

• Upgrade remaining dependency | Fix jest setup
  • PR: #1426

Contributors:

• @mikepenz, @selfdocumentingcode

v5.1.0

🚀 Features

• Convert project to use ESM instead of CJS
  • PR: #1408

💬 Other

• Improve release notes template
  • PR: #1392
• Update Actions versions
  • PR: #1409

📦 Dependencies

• Upgrade dependencies
  • PR: #1407
• [CI] Enable Dependabot for GitHub Actions
  • PR: #1410
• Bump actions/setup-node from 3 to 4
  • PR: #1411
• Bump globals from 15.13.0 to 15.14.0
  • PR: #1413
• Bump the dev-dependencies group with 3 updates
  • PR: #1412
• Upgrade dependencies
  • PR: #1424

Contributors:

• @mikepenz, @dependabot[bot]

v5

💬 Other

• Update Actions versions
  • PR: #1409

📦 Dependencies

• [CI] Enable Dependabot for GitHub Actions
  • PR: #1410
• Bump actions/setup-node from 3 to 4
  • PR: #1411
• Bump globals from 15.13.0 to 15.14.0
  • PR: #1413
• Bump the dev-dependencies group with 3 updates
  • PR: #1412
• Upgrade dependencies
  • PR: #1424

Contributors:

• @mikepenz, @dependabot[bot]

v5.1.0-rc01

🚀 Features

• Convert project to use ESM instead of CJS
  • PR: #1408

💬 Other

• Improve release notes template
  • PR: #1392

📦 Dependencies

• Upgrade dependencies
  • PR: #1407

Contributors:

• @mikepenz

v5.0.0

Important

v5 is a major release, it includes many new features, alongside breaking changes (specifically in the area of regexes) and bug fixes.
Ensure to read the regexes section for more details on new functionalities.

The key difference to v4 is that now the transformers use replace by default as a mechanism, you might have to provide match as method if you observe issues compared to v4.

Additionally, all transformers available, follow a similar structure and offer similar flexibility.

🚀 Features

• Unify handling of regex transformers | New method
  • PR: #1306
• Introduce nested categorisation
  • PR: #1308
• Refactor mode configuration | Add support for HYBRID | Add new CommitMode focused default config
  • PR: #1312
• Introduce CONTRIBUTORS (PR author based)
  • PR: #1341
• Enhance CONTRIBUTORS template
  • PR: #1343
• Introduce AUTHOR_NAME placeholder
  • PR: #1361
• Upgrade dependencies
  • PR: #1389

🐛 Fixes

• Fallback to alternative author value if main commit author login is not available
  • PR: #1328
• Fix to match categories case insensitive for gitea
  • PR: #1346
• COMMIT mode not returned when commitMode is true
  • PR: #1351
• Fix Contributor template
  • PR: #1391

💬 Other

• [CI] Optimize release changelog config
  • PR: #1307
• Rework README structure
  • PR: #1310
• Improve local testing documentation
  • PR: #1314
• Enhance error log in case of a fatal error building the changelog
  • PR: #1334
• Fix spelling mistakes
  • PR: #1340
• clarify tag_resolver.filter documentation
  • PR: #1350
• Rework README to make REGEX objects more clear
  • PR: #1353
• document commitMode to mode transition in README.md
  • PR: #1359
• Document default value for Extractor.on_property
  • PR: #1371
• Fix wrong , in README example
  • PR: #1377
• Improve README on non semver tags
  • PR: #1388
• Refactor transform.ts and others
  • PR: #1373

📦 Dependencies

• Dependency upgrades
  • PR: #1311
• Upgrade dependencies to their latest version
  • PR: #1329
• Dependency Upgrades
  • PR: #1342
• Dependency upgrades | semver 7.6.3
  • PR: #1347
• Upgrade dev dependencies
  • PR: #1357

Contributors:

• @mikepenz, @KonradHoeffner, @pajikos, @selfdocumentingcode

v5.0.0-rc03

🚀 Features

• Introduce AUTHOR_NAME placeholder
  • PR: #1361

v5.0.0-rc02

🐛 Fixes

• COMMIT mode not returned when commitMode is true
  • PR: #1351

💬 Other

• clarify tag_resolver.filter documentation
  • PR: #1350
• Rework README to make REGEX objects more clear
  • PR: #1353

📦 Dependencies

• Upgrade dev dependencies
  • PR: #1357

v5.0.0-rc01

🚀 Features

• Enhance CONTRIBUTORS template
  • PR: #1343

🐛 Fixes

• Fix to match categories case insensitive for gitea
  • PR: #1346
  • Thanks @MoonLiightz

📦 Dependencies

• Dependency upgrades | semver 7.6.3
  • PR: #1347

v5.0.0-a04

🚀 Features

• Introduce CONTRIBUTORS (PR author based)
  • PR: #1341

💬 Other

• Enhance error log in case of a fatal error building the changelog
  • PR: #1334
• Fix spelling mistakes
  • PR: #1340

📦 Dependencies

• Dependency Upgrades
  • PR: #1342

v4.2.2

🐛 Fixes

• Fallback to alternative author value if main commit author login is not available
  • PR: #1332

💬 Other

• Enhance error log in case of a fatal error building the changelog
  • PR: #1333