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Adding changelog to your manifest file

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Discussion Just above the example changelog it says `Each node can be repeated as many times as needed.`

This is not strictly true. You can have several item nodes within a parent eg

<change>
    <item>item 1</item>
    <item>item 2</item>
</change>

but you can't repeat the parent <change> node

<change>
    <item>item 1</item>
</change>
<change>
    <item>item 2</item>
</change>

Only the last <change> elements will be displayed

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Second suggestion. Although Joomla doesn't currently (v5.0.3) display it it would seem good practice to include a node

    <changelog>
        <element>com_lists</element>
        <type>component</type>
        <version>4.0.0</version>
        <date>13th March 2024</date>
        ...

This would enable improvements to the information presented in the layout. Similarly a <title> node might also be useful. Currently I use an `<addition<item>` node to provide a title, but it would be better to save the <addition> node for real additions. Also it would enable the title to be displayed above the <security> and <fix> nodes in the formatted layout.