Yay: Request: Show packages release notes

[AdrienLemaire]

I would like to read the content of all packages release notes when running yay -Syu.
It currently takes too much time to search each individual packages release notes and read about it, so we end up upgrading our packages while missing on the new features & deprecated features for said packages.

Most projects today will follow one of few conventions:

1. Write notes in a RELEASE, CHANGE or CHANGELOG file
2. Write notes in the github releases page
3. Write notes in a custom location and display in their own website.

Points 1 & 2 can easily be automatized. We could also maintain a user-contributed list of links for points 3.

Such feature would really help us to be more aware of what we're updating. Thanks for considering it

[MaaxGr]

Nice idea. Is there a plan, when this will be implemented?

[muesli]

PKGBUILDs actually support changelogs to some degree: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#changelog

This could come in really handy when updating packages: yay could diff the changelog between the installed and the new version of the package and show you what has changed since the last update.

[AdrienLemaire]

I've been using pacolog to track packages updates for the past year. It seems to be tracking the pkgbuild changelog