Changelog report cards

100 popular open-source projects, graded by the free Wakelog changelog linter — the same automated checks anyone can run on their own CHANGELOG.md or GitHub Releases: dates, ordering, vague titles, commit dumps, breaking-change flagging and more. Re-graded daily.

Board average: 95/100 · median 92/100 · 100 of 100 (100%) score B or better

A 90 (90%)

B 10 (10%)

C 0 (0%)

D 0 (0%)

F 0 (0%)

Language: All (100) Rust (26) TypeScript (20) Go (18) C (9) JavaScript (9) C++ (7) Python (7) Ruby (3) Java (2) Zig (2) C# (1) Crystal (1) Dart (1) Elixir (1) Erlang (1) HCL (1) Julia (1) Kotlin (1) Lua (1) PHP (1) Swift (1)

The score measures one narrow thing: how a project's release notes read to strangers — the structural practices from our guides, not prose quality. A lower grade is not a judgment of the software; these are all excellent projects. Every grade links to its full report, finding by finding.

Alacritty terminal emulator Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Angular UI framework TypeScript A 100/100 report · repo

Astro web framework TypeScript A 100/100 report · repo

Atuin shell history Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Axios HTTP client JavaScript A 100/100 report · repo

Bun JS runtime Zig A 100/100 report · repo

ClickHouse analytics database C++ A 100/100 report · repo

delta diff viewer Rust A 100/100 report · repo

DuckDB analytics database C++ A 100/100 report · repo

Electron desktop runtime C++ / TS A 100/100 report · repo

Elixir programming language Elixir / Erlang A 100/100 report · repo

FastAPI web framework Python A 100/100 report · repo

Flutter mobile UI toolkit Dart A 100/100 report · repo

Grafana observability platform TS / Go A 100/100 report · repo

Helix text editor Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Home Assistant home automation Python A 100/100 report · repo

Homebrew package manager Ruby A 100/100 report · repo

Jekyll static site generator Ruby A 100/100 report · repo

Kotlin programming language Kotlin / Java A 100/100 report · repo

Kubernetes orchestrator Go A 100/100 report · repo

Laravel web framework PHP A 100/100 report · repo

lazygit git TUI Go A 100/100 report · repo

Material for MkDocs docs theme Python A 100/100 report · repo

Meilisearch search engine Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Neovim text editor C / Lua A 100/100 report · repo

Next.js web framework TS / Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Nushell shell Rust A 100/100 report · repo

OpenTofu IaC tool Go A 100/100 report · repo

pnpm package manager TypeScript A 100/100 report · repo

Polars DataFrame library Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Prettier code formatter JavaScript A 100/100 report · repo

Pulumi IaC platform Go / TS A 100/100 report · repo

React UI library JavaScript A 100/100 report · repo

Redis in-memory database C A 100/100 report · repo

ripgrep search tool Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Ruff Python linter Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Sphinx docs generator Python A 100/100 report · repo

Tailwind CSS CSS framework TS / Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Traefik reverse proxy Go A 100/100 report · repo

TypeScript programming language TypeScript A 100/100 report · repo

uv Python package manager Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Valkey in-memory database C A 100/100 report · repo

VS Code code editor TypeScript A 100/100 report · repo

Vue UI framework TypeScript A 100/100 report · repo

webpack build tool JavaScript A 100/100 report · repo

WezTerm terminal emulator Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Zola static site generator Rust A 100/100 report · repo

zoxide smarter cd Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Argo CD GitOps CD Go A 92/100 report · repo

bat cat clone Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Bevy game engine Rust A 92/100 report · repo

curl data transfer tool C A 92/100 report · repo

Deno JS runtime Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Docker Compose container tool Go A 92/100 report · repo

Docusaurus docs site generator TypeScript A 92/100 report · repo

Eleventy static site generator JavaScript A 92/100 report · repo

esbuild build tool Go A 92/100 report · repo

ESLint linter JavaScript A 92/100 report · repo

etcd distributed KV store Go A 92/100 report · repo

GitHub CLI CLI tool Go A 92/100 report · repo

Gleam programming language Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Godot game engine C++ A 92/100 report · repo

Helm Kubernetes package manager Go A 92/100 report · repo

Hono web framework TypeScript A 92/100 report · repo

Hugo static site generator Go A 92/100 report · repo

Ionic mobile UI toolkit TypeScript A 92/100 report · repo

Julia programming language Julia / C A 92/100 report · repo

kitty terminal emulator Python / C A 92/100 report · repo

libGDX game framework Java A 92/100 report · repo

MkDocs docs site generator Python A 92/100 report · repo

Node.js JS runtime JS / C++ A 92/100 report · repo

PHP programming language C A 92/100 report · repo

Playwright browser automation TypeScript A 92/100 report · repo

Prometheus monitoring system Go A 92/100 report · repo

pytest test framework Python A 92/100 report · repo

Qdrant vector database Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Ruby on Rails web framework Ruby A 92/100 report · repo

starship shell prompt Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Supabase backend platform TypeScript A 92/100 report · repo

SurrealDB multi-model database Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Svelte UI framework JS / TS A 92/100 report · repo

Swift programming language C++ / Swift A 92/100 report · repo

Tauri desktop runtime Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Terraform IaC tool Go A 92/100 report · repo

terraform-aws-vpc Terraform module HCL A 92/100 report · repo

TimescaleDB time-series database C A 92/100 report · repo

tmux terminal multiplexer C A 92/100 report · repo

Vite build tool TypeScript A 92/100 report · repo

Vitest test runner TypeScript A 92/100 report · repo

Zig programming language Zig A 92/100 report · repo

.NET MAUI cross-platform framework C# B 84/100 report · repo

Caddy web server Go B 84/100 report · repo

Capacitor native web runtime TypeScript B 84/100 report · repo

Crystal programming language Crystal B 84/100 report · repo

fzf fuzzy finder Go B 84/100 report · repo

MinIO object storage Go B 84/100 report · repo

React Native mobile framework JS / C++ B 84/100 report · repo

Rust programming language Rust B 84/100 report · repo

Zed code editor Rust B 84/100 report · repo

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Zellij terminal multiplexer Rust B 84/100 report · repo

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