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.
HCL average: 92/100 · median 92/100 · 1 of 1 (100%) score B or better
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.
How would yours score? Lint your changelog — paste a file or drop a repo URL, free, no signup. Then put the grade in your README with a live badge, or host a changelog on Wakelog that passes by construction: dated entries, permalinks, RSS, newest-first, breaking-change tags.