As far as I can tell, the autogeneration of changelogs you can do with standard-version https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version and commitzen ( https://github.com/commitizen/cz-cli ) fulfills the criteria Keep a Changelog wants: right date format, clear notes for breaking changes, and no unnecessary information from irrelevant commits. I've really liked using the two for a variety of systems - the strict commit message formatting and opinionated changelog generation means that the resulting changelogs are pretty darn readable. But ymmv.
Seconding this recommendation. Recently began using them at work and it's improved engineering <--> company communication, as well as engineering <--> engineering communication since I can look at the generated changelog and know exactly what changed there, in ALL commits.
These are node-specific tools. Do you know of anything similar but generic?
Ideally, one would have something that can be connected to project-management tools rather than github, e.g. Trello: when you mark a checklist or archive a card, the title should go in changelog.
