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It's a bit annoying to document every single bugfix in a changelog too, though. At least I don't want to read dozens of lines like

- Fixed flickering lower-right pixel when hovering over close button with a stylus on devices with more than 300 % UI scaling applied.

- Fixed alignment issue in About dialog.

- Improved help text for Gizmo frobbing feature.

To me a changelog should prominently document changes in function and behaviour. I don't particularly care if an exception message got a typo fixed, but I do care about a new feature, if a login problem for a subset of users has been resolved or a crash under weird circumstances has been fixed.



> At least I don't want to read dozens of lines like

I must be a crazy user, because I generally like reading through changelogs to see if an update is worth applying because it addresses a specific issue I am having, implements a new interesting feature I want to try, or fixes critical flaws.

Luckily, though, public bug trackers are generally a good way to find out at least the 'is my bug fixed' part without the changelog (your issue is closed as 'fixed in X.Y')


Yes, it is possible to mention such. It is not important for most users, but super important to ones affected by a given bug. Vide:

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/patch-notes/3-9-0




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