# Printing changelog upon package updates

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/printing-changelog-upon-package-updates/4519>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [June 28, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/printing-changelog-upon-package-updates/4519 "2017-06-28T15:54:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/printing-changelog-upon-package-updates/4519/1 "2017-06-28T15:54:08Z")

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One of the nicest things about developing Julia packages is the fact that we can deploy new releases with attobot with a single click on GitHub. What I would like to propose is some sort of mechanism that prints the changelog of a new release on the Julia prompt whenever the user asks for an update with `Pkg.update()`.

Currently, we can see the tags in the update log like `Foo v1.2.3 -> v1.2.4`, but even better would be if for each of these new tags we could see a list of changes right away from the [release description](https://github.com/juliohm/GeoStats.jl/releases). Maybe a verbose option to `Pkg.update(verbose=true)`? What are your thoughts on this?

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**Author:** ![cstjean](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cstjean/32/1444_2.png) [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/printing-changelog-upon-package-updates/4519/2 "2017-06-28T16:05:06Z")

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[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16187](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16187)

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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/printing-changelog-upon-package-updates/4519/3 "2017-06-28T16:11:50Z")

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Perfect, didn’t know there was issue open already. Like the option `Pkg.update(news=true)`.