toolbox-changelog

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Generates user-facing changelogs for Devolutions Gateway and Devolutions Agent in Devolutions ToolBox format from CHANGELOG.md.

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ToolBox Changelog Generator

Read CHANGELOG.md from the project root and produce two user-facing changelogs — one for Devolutions Gateway and one for Devolutions Agent — ready to paste into the Devolutions ToolBox change history.

Step 1: Determine the target version

If the user provided a version argument (e.g. /toolbox-changelog 2025.3.4), find the ## 2025.3.4 (...) block in CHANGELOG.md.
Otherwise, use the first (most recent) version block in the file.

Step 2: Collect relevant entries

For each entry in the target version block, check the scope (the text in _italics_ before the colon). An entry can have multiple scopes separated by commas (e.g. _dgw,agent_:).

Scope routing:

Scope	Product	Label
`dgw`	Devolutions Gateway	`Service`
`installer`	Devolutions Gateway	`Installer`
`agent`	Devolutions Agent	`Service`
`agent-installer`	Devolutions Agent	`Installer`

Ignore entries with any other scope (webapp, jetsocat, build, etc.) — they are internal or belong to other products.

When a single entry has multiple scopes (e.g. _dgw,agent_:), emit a separate line for each product it belongs to.

Step 3: Classify into categories

Map each CHANGELOG section to a user-facing category:

CHANGELOG section	Category
`### Features`	New features
`### Performance`	Improvements
`### Security`	Improvements
`### Bug Fixes`	Fixes
`### Build`	(skip)

If unsure, use your judgment: new capabilities → New features, polish/performance/UX → Improvements, fixes → Fixes.

Step 4: Write user-friendly descriptions

The raw commit message title is often too technical. Rewrite each entry in plain English that a non-developer end user would understand:

Remove implementation details (crate names, internal module names, PR numbers, commit hashes, protocol internals).
Use active voice and plain language.
Preserve the key user-visible benefit.
Keep it to one line.

Good examples:

Service - Add options to use a dedicated certificate for CredSSP credential injection
Installer - Allow downloading keys even when the certificate isn't trusted (useful in restricted/air-gapped environments)
Service - Reduce noisy logs: benign client disconnects are now logged as DEBUG instead of ERROR
Service - Add outbound proxy configuration support for HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS
Service - Automatically generate a self-signed certificate for CredSSP when no TLS certificate is configured

Bad examples (too technical):

Service - Replace reqwest system-proxy with proxy_cfg crate for PAC file support ← internal implementation detail
Service - Downgrade BrokenPipe/ConnectionReset/UnexpectedEof from ERROR to DEBUG ← raw code terms
Installer - Fix 9a9f31ad71 ← commit hash, no context

Use the multi-line description under each entry (when present) to understand the user-facing impact — but don't reproduce it verbatim; summarize what the user gains.

Handling vague entries: When a commit message title is ambiguous and there is no multi-line description, inspect the commit diff to understand what actually changed. Each CHANGELOG entry contains a commit hash as a link — run git show <hash> to read the diff. Use what you find to write an accurate, user-friendly description. Only omit an entry if the diff confirms it is purely internal with no user-visible effect.

Step 5: Output format

Print the final result. Omit any category that has no entries.

Devolutions Gateway

New features
Service - ...
Installer - ...

Improvements
Service - ...

Fixes
Service - ...
Installer - ...

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Devolutions Agent

New features
Service - ...

Improvements
Service - ...

Fixes
Service - ...
Installer - ...

Each entry is on its own line. Categories are separated by a blank line. The two product sections are separated by --- and a blank line. This makes it easy to copy individual lines directly into the Devolutions ToolBox.