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Triggered by Reddit feedback (sysadmin user complained that every
release page shows the same install instructions instead of what
actually changed). Two changes:
1) .github/workflows/release.yml: removed ~80 lines of hardcoded
install/docker/helm boilerplate from the release body. Replaced
with a single link to README.md#quick-start (the source of truth
for install instructions). Kept the per-release supply-chain
verification block (Cosign / SLSA / SBOM steps with the version
baked into the commands) — that IS per-release-meaningful and the
kind of content a security-conscious operator actually wants.
generate_release_notes: true unchanged → GitHub auto-generates the
'What's Changed' section from commits between this tag and the
previous one.
2) CHANGELOG.md: replaced 1393-line hand-edited document with a
one-paragraph stub pointing at GitHub Releases as the source of
truth. The old CHANGELOG had drifted (everything since v2.2.0
piled into [unreleased]; tags v2.0.55-v2.0.61 had no entries).
A stale CHANGELOG is worse than no CHANGELOG — signals abandoned
maintenance to operators doing security diligence. Auto-generated
notes from commit messages work here because the project's commit
message convention is already descriptive (see git log v2.0.50..HEAD
for established pattern). Pre-v2.2.0 history preserved at the
v2.2.0 git tag.
Net result: every future release page shows
- 'What's Changed' (auto from commits, per-release-unique)
- 'Verifying this release' (Cosign/SLSA verification, per-release-version)
- One-line link to README install
…instead of the same 80-line install block on every release.
Verification:
- python3 yaml.safe_load(.github/workflows/release.yml): OK
- No internal references to CHANGELOG.md elsewhere in repo
(grep README.md docs/ → empty)
- Release-pipeline change is YAML-only; no Go code touched
Bundle: chore/release-notes-hygiene