Is it possible for release notes to only include the URL linking to the version, rather than the full list of changes?

[adamwilner]

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Some dependency release notes are so long they surpass the PR body length maximum. This is especially true when multiple dependencies are grouped, leading to some being omitted. It would be nice if there was an option to get just the links to the changelogs for each dependency, rather than the full text.

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[booleanbetrayal]

Would love to see a verbosity feature as well to disable the changelogs and only provide links to the officially hosted release pages. This would solve a lot of issues for us around PR body length / truncation / etc in grouped updates (and even some really long major version releases of packages).

[rarkins]

Does setting fetchChangeLogs=false produce the result you want?

[booleanbetrayal]

Thanks for the prompt feedback! Unfortunately, that seems to result in an absence of external links to the individual release versions, provided via the associated repositories. It would be nice to have a way (maybe there is?) to preserve those release version links for external perusal, but without including the content associated with those releases in an inline fashion.

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