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You ever play or work on a game? Changelogs are a big deal over there. Automatically collecting them would be highly valuable.

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Do this from your JIRA (or equivalent) tickets then, you already have user oriented descriptions there. you can easily collect all tasks and bug tickets done during a sprint and generate a changelog. Though in practice I would expect someone to cleanup by hand.

How do you link the tickets to the code that was actually built to be sure the changelog is complete and accurate?

It's usual to include the ticket id in the commit or PR so you can pull it from logs at build time and have a canonical list. Then grab the info to include from the ticketing system.

Ha! Maybe I just worked in a less organized game studio, but the only reliable record was the commit log.

Except when people would literally just mash their keyboard like this:

Commit 1234: iuadiuasdbuidawbiywbuqbqbdfpbdpiube

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