Changelog Manager 📝

This Visual Studio Code extension helps to build a changelog for your project, either in markdown or plain text files. The changelog format follows Keep a changelog.

Requires Visual Studio Code 1.140 or newer.

For markdown files I suggest to enable quickSuggestions (disabled by default for markdown files):

// Configure settings to be overridden for [markdown] language.
"[markdown]":  {
  "editor.quickSuggestions": true
}

Commands

Initialize a new full changelog in the workspace or open folder root; if there is no folder open, prompt the user to ask for a folder where to store the new changelog file

• Initialize full markdown ChangeLog
• Initialize full plaintext ChangeLog

Allow to select the folder where to create the changelog

• Initialize full markdown ChangeLog in folder...
• Initialize full plaintext ChangeLog in folder...

Development

Use Node.js 24 LTS (nvm use) and npm. The development toolchain requires a supported Node.js release; Node.js 16 and 23 are not supported.

npm ci
npm audit
npm run lint
npm test

npm test builds the production extension, compiles the tests, and runs them in a downloaded VS Code instance with an isolated temporary workspace. On headless Linux, run xvfb-run -a npm test. npm run webpack-dev watches the extension bundle; npm run unit-tests watches test compilation for the VS Code debugger.

TypeScript stays on the latest compatible 6.x release while typescript-eslint requires TypeScript below 6.1. Dependency overrides keep transitive glob and minimatch on patched releases until their consumers update their requirements.