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Better ChangeLog #2438
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The ChangeLog for this library only says "This release has breaking changes". That's not useful information. What changed? How? What is the migration path?
Example: https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#6400-2020-11-05
Describe the solution you'd like
A clear and concise description of what has changed in a major release.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I realize that this package is autogenerated, and that these "has breaking changes" are per sub-component. If there are changelogs for those subcomponents, please link to them in the changelog for this package.
Reacted by Will Battel, Dany Castillo, Adam Reis, sceee and Gautier Ben Aïm
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willbattel commentedon Nov 15, 2020
It is difficult for developers using this library to stay up to date, because every update requires us to dig unreasonably deep to figure out what has been changed, and if it breaks any of the APIs we're using. Listing the API changes on the Releases page, or at least linking to a centralized source that provides such information, would be a HUGE service to us.
This has been requested before (here), but unfortunately yielded no response. I do greatly appreciate the improvement in recent releases, such as v58, compared to previous releases such as v51. Still not ideal but significantly better.
djmitche commentedon Jan 4, 2021
This is definitely an improvement!
bcoe commentedon May 10, 2022
We've had an improved CHANGELOG for quite some time now 🎉 cleaning up some old issues.
GauBen commentedon Apr 12, 2023
Hey! Sorry for waking up this issue, but the change log is no longer helpful
djmitche commentedon Apr 12, 2023
@GauBen I think you will be better-served opening a new issue and linking to this one.