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What is Releases?
=================
Releases is a `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org>`_ extension designed to help you
keep a source control friendly, merge friendly changelog file & turn it into
useful, human readable HTML output.
Specifically:
* The source format (kept in your Sphinx tree as ``changelog.rst``) is a
stream-like timeline that plays well with source control & only requires one
entry per change (even for changes that exist in multiple release lines).
* The output (when you have the extension installed and run your Sphinx build
command) is a traditional looking changelog page with a section for every
release; multi-release issues are copied automatically into each release.
* By default, feature and support issues are only displayed under feature
releases, and bugs are only displayed under bugfix releases. This can be
overridden on a per-issue basis.
Some background on why this tool was created can be found in `this blog post
<http://bitprophet.org/blog/2013/09/14/a-better-changelog/>`_.
For more documentation, including detailed installation and usage information,
please see http://releases.readthedocs.org.
.. note::
You can install the `development version
<https://github.com/bitprophet/releases/tarball/master#egg=releases-dev>`_
via ``pip install releases==dev``.