Maven Conventional Changelog generator for Java

Allows for automatic conventional changelog generation for Java / Maven projects based on GIT VCS history.

Maven Plugin

Info

Plugin requires you to follow Conventional Commit specifications in your commits in order to create a valid changelog entries, commits that do not comply with the convention they will be ignored.

Install the Plugin

   <plugins>
       <plugin>
           <groupId>com.github.eugenenosenko</groupId>
           <artifactId>changelog-maven-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>x.x.x</version>
       </plugin>
   </plugins>

Plugin configuration

Plugin allows you to specify following options:

• <release> specifies number of releases to generate changelog. Default value is -1 which will generate entries for entire git history <release>0</release> will generate changelog only for last release, 1 and 2 for last 2 and 3 respectively.

• filename specifies filename changelog should be written into

• amendLastCommit specifies whether last commit should be amended to include changelog file changes, this will perform:

  • soft reset
  • add changelog file changes
  • commit with the same message as before
  • in case any tags where associated with the previous commit it will reapply the tag

See full configuration below

        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.github.eugenenosenko</groupId>
            <artifactId>changelog-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>x.x.x</version>
            <configuration>
                <amendLastCommit>true</amendLastCommit>         <!-- default is "false"-->
                <filename>mychangelog.md</filename>             <!-- default is "CHANGELOG.md"-->
                <release>2</release>                            <!-- default is "-1"-->
                <backupFilename>backupfile.md</backupFilename>  <!-- default is "CHANGELOG.md.backup"-->
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

Usage

mvn changelog:conventional

You can specify configuration parameters from command line same as for any other plugin, i.e.

mvn changelog:conventional -Drelease=1 -Dfilename=changelog.md -DamendLastCommit=true