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: 89/100 · median 92/100 · 24 of 26 (92%) score B or better

A 16 (62%)

B 8 (31%)

C 1 (4%)

D 1 (4%)

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

Atuin shell history Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Nushell shell Rust A 100/100 report · repo

ripgrep search tool Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Tauri desktop runtime Rust A 100/100 report · repo

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

WezTerm terminal emulator Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Zed code editor Rust A 100/100 report · repo

zoxide smarter cd Rust A 100/100 report · repo

Bevy game engine Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Deno JS runtime Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Gleam programming language Rust A 92/100 report · repo

Ruff Python linter Rust A 92/100 report · repo

starship shell prompt Rust A 92/100 report · repo

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

Tailwind CSS CSS framework TS / Rust A 92/100 report · repo

bat cat clone Rust B 84/100 report · repo

delta diff viewer Rust B 84/100 report · repo

Polars DataFrame library Rust B 84/100 report · repo

Qdrant vector database Rust B 84/100 report · repo

Zellij terminal multiplexer Rust B 84/100 report · repo

Meilisearch search engine Rust B 76/100 report · repo

Next.js web framework TS / Rust B 76/100 report · repo

Helix text editor Rust B 75/100 report · repo

Rust programming language Rust C 68/100 report · repo

100

Zola static site generator Rust D 51/100 report · repo

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