Awesome .NET has a "changelog" section under all projects. You can find it next to the "Repo" button in the header. There are two features that make it unique.

  1. It is an aggregation of parsed "CHANGELOG.md" files and releases information from Github. This way, it is easier to see all changes in a single place and a uniform style.
  2. All changelogs are "emojified". This helps with identifying each change easier. Emojification is achieved by parsing each line and applying a specific emoji based on the first word or some other tokens.

The combination of the above two makes package changelogs on Awesome .NET unique.

As you know, an example is worth a 1,000 words 🚀

Changelog examples

  • SmartStoreNET 4.0.0 (June 25, 2020)

    Highlights

    • (NEW) Media Manager : Powerful and lightning-fast explorer/manager for media files (commercial plugin exclusively bundled with Pro Edition)
    • 🏗 (NEW) Rule Builder : Powerful rule system for visual business rule creation
      • Dozens of predefined rules out-of-the-box
      • Supports logical operators (AND/OR) and unlimited grouping/nesting
      • Cart rules: can be applied to tier prices, discounts, shipping and payment methods
      • Customer rules: used to auto-assign customers to customer groups for 1-to-1 content targeting
      • Product rules: used to auto-assign products to categories based on filter definitions (e.g. price, brand, color, stock etc.)
    • 🆕 (NEW) New permission (ACL) system: Granular tree-based permission management based on customer groups. Supports inheritance to allow or deny entire permission ranges
    • (NEW) Personalized product recommendations : Replaces homepage products dynamically with personalized product recommendations based on customer interests. (commercial plugin)
    • (NEW) Geo Blocker : Restricts shop access based on visitor country or IP address ranges (commercial plugin)
    • (NEW) Dashboard with charts : New dashboard widgets display key data like orders, customers, bestsellers etc. in nice graphical charts.

    💥 Breaking changes

    • (Dev) Install\UninstallPermissions has been removed from IPermissionService. No longer needs to be called by plugins. Permissions are now automatically installed\uninstalled.
    • (Dev) IDiscountRequirementRule and IShippingMethodFilter has been removed. Discounts and shipping methods can now be filtered by rule sets.
    • (Dev) Customer navigation property CustomerRoles has been replaced by CustomerRoleMappings, a new entity for role mappings.
    • The search index must be rebuilt due to various enhancements.
    • (Dev) The wrong name of API endpoint LocalizedPropertys has been corrected and renamed to LocalizedProperties.

    🆕 New Features

    • Granular permissions : All permissions of a customer directly visible on the customer edit page.
    • 🔌 DEV: Added Visual Studio extension to create Smartstore Plugins
    • GDPR conform Cookie Consent Manager
    • 🔍 SEO: XML Sitemap now includes blog, news and forum
    • 🔍 SEO: do 301 redirect to URL without trailing slash
    • 👍 SVG support for image uploads.
    • ⏱ Schedule tasks: new property "Priority" runs tasks with higher priority first when multiple tasks are pending.
    • 💻 #1805 Added XML Sitemap settings to backend UI.
    • #1598 Add published property to ProductTag entity.
    • #1669 Apply percentage discounts also on tier prices.
    • #1618 Implement ACL and multistore capability on menu item level.
    • 🏗 #1683 Menu Builder items: implement support for icon (brand) color.
    • #1584 Show bundle item images in order details like in shopping cart details.
    • MegaSearch :
      • Added more text analysis options (e.g. Lucene.Net classic analyzer).
      • Added tool to display internal information about a search, such as Lucene.Net terms.
      • #1693 Find the grouped product when searching for the SKU, GTIN, MPN of a non individually visible, associated product.
      • #1711 Find product when searching for GTIN or MPN of an attribute combination.
      • Perf. Added option to ignore attribute filtering property on product level.
    • 🌐 Web-API :
      • #1809 Added a parameter to start an import after uploading import files.
      • #1801 Added endpoints for ProductPictures, ProductCategories and ProductManufacturers to allow updating DisplayOrder.
      • #1858 Added endpoints for NewsLetterSubscription.
    • #1714 Direct links to variations on a product.
    • #1733 Add ability to hide products from catalog, but not search.
    • #1754 Implement hidden boolean setting that controls which catalog search engine implementation should be used in backend.
    • #1776 Enable images and color values for search filters to be stored for specification attribute options.
    • #1793 Add field for manufacturer bottom description like for categories.
    • #1116 Add new field for product condition.
    • 👍 #1790 ACL support for manufacturers.
    • 👍 #1616 Add new field for tracking URL to shipment entity to better track shipments.
    • 🏗 (Page Builder) Added a Page Builder block to display blog posts.

    👌 Improvements

    • #1663 Make MeasureDimension and MeasureWeight localizable.
    • #1600 Show an example currency value for custom formatting value changes.
    • Card desk instead of a grid for customer addresses on customer edit page.
    • Display "price from" in product lists if any attribute combination price exists.
    • Reworked blog & news section.
    • 🔒 #1718 Activated ReCaptcha without keys can cause the merchant to lock himself out of the shop.
    • #1752 Export: let a provider directly export to a file stream instead of a memory stream.
    • #1763 Topic editor should display all menu item nodes that reference the current topic.
    • 💻 #1665 UI: ACL, discount and store selection should be done via multiple select2.
    • ⚡️ Updated UserAgent Parser.
    • ⚡️ TinyImage: updated WebP detection patterns.
    • PayPal PLUS :
      • Apply order of payment methods in backend to the list of third-party payment methods in checkout.
      • #1848 Send the billing address when redirecting to PayPal.
    • Hide cart payment button for payment methods without match of applied rule sets.
    • 👍 #1839 MegaSearch: Support exact value match for numeric range filters.
    • #1920 Hide option prizes if "Call for price" is enabled.
    • Debitoor: added an option to force a price type on invoices.
    • BeezUp: export product costs.
    • 🛠 #1915 RTL: fixed alignment of product art badge.
    • #1738 Sending of mails to customers uses generic message template now.
    • 💻 #1805 UI: Added XmlSitemap settings to backend
    • And many more other minor improvements

    🛠 Bugfixes

    • 🛠 Export: Fixed KeyNotFoundException when batch size was 1.
    • 🛠 #1686 Fixed KeyNotFoundException when payment method friendly name ends with spaces.
    • 🛠 Cart: Fixed ShoppingCartSettings.ShowProductBundleImagesOnShoppingCart hides the bundle item name.
    • MegaSearch :
      • Fixed the preset sorting order of products on a manufacturer page may be wrong depending on catalog settings.
      • #1716 Price facet filter bypasses Call for Pricing and shows the approximate price of a product.
      • The number of hits for product review facets was wrong in some cases.
      • Do not show facets for manufacturers or categories if they are limited to stores or subject to ACL.
      • #1823 Ghost facet filter groups will appear if a numeric value is assigned that matches to a different spec option.
    • 🏗 Page Builder :
      • #1689 Block with z-index < 0 can not be selected in story view - Block tools can reduce z-index below 0.
      • #1691 Manually editing/removing block cols/rows does not refresh grid state correctly.
      • #1684 Edit Mode rendering bug in Mac Safari
      • #1836 Added "Order" property to page Builder block to control rendering order of blocks in HTML output
    • PayPal :
      • Fixed rare exception "Unsupported Media Type" (415) in PayPal PLUS.
      • Only process a partially refund IPN when the order refunded amount is zero. Otherwise the order refunded amount will be wrong.
    • Customer import :
      • VatNumber and other fields were ignored.
      • Customer roles sometimes inserted several times.
      • Changed billing/shipping address was added instead of updating the existing one.
      • Region assigned to an address was not updated.
    • Product tags :
      • #1730 Product tag count should filter also based on Visibility.
      • Product tag count sometimes not up-to-date due to missing cache clearance.
    • Debitoor :
      • Avoid errors due to invalid quantity unit Id of 0.
      • #1952 rework quantity units.
      • Sometimes the SKU was missing on invoices.
    • Multistore mapping was ignored for manufacturers in sitemap.
    • Categories limited to stores were not displayed in tree view.
    • 🛠 Fixed InvalidOperationException in CreatePdfInvoiceAttachment when an order is placed by a guest.
    • The ShowDescriptionInSubPages setting should also be applied to the bottom category description.
    • #1774 Recaptcha: doesn't work for product reviews, blog and news comments if hidden captcha is activated.
    • #1766 Customer FullName is not populated after registration.
    • 🛠 #1765 Web-API: fixed authentication error "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: name" when login type is email.
    • 🛠 Payone: fixed wrong hash value if redirecting option is activated.
    • 🔧 Azure: opening the configuration page resulted in an error.
    • Shipping by weight: the surcharge hint was not displayed correctly.
    • Off-canvas menu shows wrong product count for brand menu items.
    • Images of newly added variants could be deleted automatically due to wrong image transient state.
    • #1794 Menu display order is ignored for widget zone header_menu_special_after.
    • #1451 RTL: Manage categories tree view.
    • Biz-Importer: If the TaxRate table was missing, the assignment of the tax category to the product was not set.
    • #1832 Import: adding URL records requires cache to be cleared.
    • #1818 The order list summary do not respect all list filters and shows wrong aggregate values.
    • #1835 Removing gift card issue.
    • #1875 A delivery time cannot be deleted if it is assigned to a variant combination of a deleted product.
    • 🛠 BeezUp: fixes ArgumentNullException, parameter name "source".
    • 🌲 #1743 Avoid redirecting to the account activation page when trying to log in for the first time.
    • #1895 The checkout button disappears when moving a product from the shopping cart to the wishlist.
    • 🏗 Menu builder: in case of system menus the template can changes accidentally when saving.
    • Structured data: Replace length with depth property.
    • #1701 'View All' button from the offcanvas manufacturer menu causes 404 on mobile.
    • ➕ Added missing sitemap task.
    • 💻 #1696 ESD: browser freezes when editing file changelog
    • 🛠 And many more other minor fixes...
  • Paket 5.247.3 (June 22, 2020)
    • ✂ Remove recursion from lock access test
  • RazorLight 2.0.0-beta8 (June 21, 2020)

    🛠 #335 - Fixed spelling errors in the code (@SimonCropp)
    ✅ #309 - Added regression tests for common Razorlight renderer cases (@weyert)
    ✅ #346 - Introduce Verify for section approval tests (@SimonCropp)

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