Release v0.18.1

0.18.1 - 2026-05-26

This release improves the correctness and reliability of existing rules, fixes several message quality issues that made errors harder to understand, and adds per-rule documentation to the feature guide.

Fixed

• Fix HTTPS validation logic
• Fix message quality issues in rules
• Fix rule severity error in documentation
• Fix validation for date display in headings

Changed

• Improve feature rules documentation

Release v0.18.0

0.18.0 - 2026-05-19

This release polishes the user experience with richer output, progress feedback, and first-class GitHub Actions support, while also tightening version validation.

Added

• Add ANSI color codes to stylish format #529
• Add no-version-regression rule #545
• Add GitHub Actions annotation output format for check #544
• Add progress feedback to file-modifying commands #549

Fixed

• Fix use of special properties in CLI #539

Release v0.17.1

0.17.1 - 2026-04-08

Changed

• Downgrade unknown-link-type rule severity from ERROR to WARN #528

Release v0.17.0

0.17.0 - 2026-04-07

This release enhances changelog quality enforcement with new validation rules and adds a format command to automatically normalize changelog content.

Added

• Add format command to normalize content and enforce structural ordering #524
• Add no-orphan-ref rule #481
• Add unknown-link-type rule #483
• Add no-link-brackets rule #499
• Add column-width rule #330

Release v0.16.1

0.16.1 - 2026-03-26

Fixed

• Fix URL parsing when path is empty

0.16.0 - 2026-03-26

This release focuses on making changelog management more flexible and automated.
New commands and smarter inference aim to simplify setup, improve integration with forges, and streamline release workflows.

Added

• Add init command to create a CHANGELOG.md if it does not exist #438
• Add yank command to state that a release as been pulled #510
• Add fetch command to retrieve message from remote forge issue #511
• Add note command to set the text after the unreleased header #517
• Add support of repository links in forges #521

Changed

• Improve project URL inference #522
• Improve forge inference #523

Release v0.16.0

0.16.0 - 2026-03-26

This release focuses on making changelog management more flexible and automated.
New commands and smarter inference aim to simplify setup, improve integration with forges, and streamline release workflows.

Added

• Add init command to create a CHANGELOG.md if it does not exist #438
• Add yank command to state that a release as been pulled #510
• Add fetch command to retrieve message from remote forge issue #511
• Add note command to set the text after the unreleased header #517
• Add support of repository links in forges #521

Changed

• Improve project URL inference #522
• Improve forge inference #523

Release v0.15.0

0.15.0 - 2026-03-10

This release adds hierarchical configuration file support, yanked releases, push command, Maven Enforcer rules and a duplicate-items rule.
It also fixes a few rules.

Added

• Add option to set system properties from command-line #500
• Add Maven Enforcer custom rule #3
• Add support of yanked releases #229
• Add push command to insert a change to the Unreleased section #230
• Add hierarchical configuration file support via heylogs.properties #501
• Skip unreleased version in no-empty-group rule #469
• Add duplicate-items rule #474

Fixed

• Fix IllegalArgumentException on URI without scheme #482
• Fix HTTPS rule on missing protocol #486
• Fix imbalanced braces rule when braces are in inline code blocks #471

Release v0.14.1

0.14.1 - 2025-09-16

Fixed

• Fix forge ref validation if ref parser is missing #445
• Improve error message of Changelog section #444

Release v0.14.0

0.14.0 - 2025-09-08

This release focuses on improving and extending rules.
Note that it has a breaking change in the configuration of tag prefix:

• --tag-prefix v option has been replaced by -t prefix:v.

Added

• Add rule severity configuration #224
• Add generic forge ref rule #429
• Add rule severity to the list command output #430
• Add support of version with direct link #206
• Add release date rule #25
• Add dot-space-link-style rule #165,#323
• Add tagging SPI #431
• Add tag versioning rule #432
• Add domain configuration #433

Changed

• Change default severity of no-empty-release rule from WARN to ERROR
• Simplify forge and format configuration
• Simplify command names in API

Release v0.13.0

0.13.0 - 2025-08-26

This release focuses on versioning schemes.
Note that it has a breaking change in the configuration of versioning:

• --semver option has been replaced by -v semver.
• -D heylogs.semver option has been replaced by - D heylogs.versioning=semver.

Added

• Add Calendar Versioning #253
• Add forge configuration #421
• Add generic versioning rule #419
• Add Regex Versioning #423
• Add versioning arg validation #424

Changed

• Modify versioning configuration #420
• Simplify versioning configuration #425