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.

Rust average: 95/100 · median 100/100 · 26 of 26 (100%) score B or better

A 23 (88%)
B 3 (12%)
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.

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Alacritty terminal emulator Rust A 100/100 report · repo
4
Atuin shell history Rust A 100/100 report · repo
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delta diff viewer Rust A 100/100 report · repo
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Helix text editor Rust A 100/100 report · repo
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Meilisearch search engine Rust A 100/100 report · repo
25
Next.js web framework TS / Rust A 100/100 report · repo
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Nushell shell Rust A 100/100 report · repo
29
Polars DataFrame library Rust A 100/100 report · repo
34
ripgrep search tool Rust A 100/100 report · repo
36
Tailwind CSS CSS framework TS / Rust A 100/100 report · repo
39
uv Python package manager Rust A 100/100 report · repo
44
WezTerm terminal emulator Rust A 100/100 report · repo
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Zola static site generator Rust A 100/100 report · repo
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zoxide smarter cd Rust A 100/100 report · repo
48
bat cat clone Rust A 92/100 report · repo
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Bevy game engine Rust A 92/100 report · repo
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Deno JS runtime Rust A 92/100 report · repo
60
Gleam programming language Rust A 92/100 report · repo
72
Qdrant vector database Rust A 92/100 report · repo
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Ruff Python linter Rust A 92/100 report · repo
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starship shell prompt Rust A 92/100 report · repo
77
SurrealDB multi-model database Rust A 92/100 report · repo
80
Tauri desktop runtime Rust A 92/100 report · repo
96
Rust programming language Rust B 84/100 report · repo
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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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