Changelog question

[VikingTristan]

Changelog history is deleted after every release.

From current README.md:

After pushing to master, complete the following steps:

1. Change back to develop.
2. Remove the content of changelog (leave the heading).
3. Commit the file and push it.

A user doesn't sit and read every changelog that happen from every release. A user will read it when deciding to update. This is a problem when the changelog only contains the latest update.
Consider the following:

User has version 1.5.0.
Current release is 2.1.0.
Changelog will now only contain updates from 2.0.x to 2.1.0.

User is now 😥

Possible implementations 1 2

[erikhallaraaker]

This is how the changelog was originally. However when we implemented github releases we made appveyor read the content of the changelog and add it to the release. A workaround would be to add a (temporary?) file with the current changes for the release and have appveyour attach these instead.

[VikingTristan]

Ah, I see.

Yes. A RELEASE-NOTES.md. Perhaps its content can be generated aswell.