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.

C average: 95/100 · median 100/100 · 8 of 9 (89%) score B or better

A 8 (89%)
B 0 (0%)
C 1 (11%)
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.

6
curl data transfer tool C A 100/100 report · repo
11
Julia programming language Julia / C A 100/100 report · repo
12
kitty terminal emulator Python / C A 100/100 report · repo
20
Redis in-memory database C A 100/100 report · repo
24
TimescaleDB time-series database C A 100/100 report · repo
25
tmux terminal multiplexer C A 100/100 report · repo
53
PHP programming language C A 92/100 report · repo
66
Valkey in-memory database C A 92/100 report · repo
97
Neovim text editor C / Lua C 68/100 report · repo

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