Add a changelog

[dignifiedquire]

We should add a changelog (and auto generated if possible on releases, though this depends on us having a decent commit message convention and enforcing it)

https://github.com/ajoslin/conventional-changelog

Discuss :)

[fazo96]

I think the most important thing is clear commit messages, also I see there is a little amount of commits between releases, so I don't think generating a changelog is very useful

[Mithgol]

I've encountered a necessity of a changelog. Today I am not sure why version 4.0.0 is a major version (in other words, what are the backwards-incompatible changes in it).

[daviddias]

It were changes on the Object API that now follows the spec defined on https://github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core#object, you should be able to use almost as you were using, with the different that you now have to call on the return object (the dagNode), .toJSON() to get a JSON format of the results (which will bring more info than sometimes just the Hash)

Agree on having a changelog 👍

[Mithgol]

I've encountered a necessity of a changelog.

Once again.

This time it took the form of TypeError: IPFSAPI(...).add is not a function.

[daviddias]

Apologies @Mithgol, didn't want to cause any pain migrating. We created a (probably too small) entry on https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/releases/tag/v5.0.0.

However, I'm surprised that .add stopped being a function as we created aliases here https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/blob/master/src/load-commands.js#L32-L34.

What version are you running?

[Mithgol]

I've tried version 5.0.1, but the problem seems to persist in version 6.0.1 as well.

Here's a screenshot for 6.0.1:

[Mithgol]

Here's a screenshot of the same method working in v4.1.0:

(Not very clean because I forgot to require the module from the start. But anyway.)

[dignifiedquire]

We will be doing this together with ipfs/aegir#30

[daviddias]

In addition to the (soon to be) changelog, we now have:

• 🌟 interface-ipfs-core Updates and Changelog 📣 interface-js-ipfs-core#55

And are working towards making this experience less painful on: https://github.com/ipfs/http-api-spec/issues/116

[daviddias]

We have changelogs now :D https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/releases \o/

[Mithgol]

Excellent. Thanks.