miniscruff

miniscruff is an independent development studio focused on lean, developer-centric tooling that streamlines otherwise tedious release workflows. Its catalog revolves around changie, a cross-platform CLI utility that automates the assembly and formatting of project changelogs. Designed for teams that ship frequently, changie lets engineers record notable additions, fixes and breaking changes as they occur, then compiles those fragments into polished, versioned release notes compatible with Keep a Changelog, GitHub Releases, and conventional commit formats. Users can layer in custom categories, override templates, and integrate the step into existing CI pipelines so every tag is accompanied by human-readable history without manual copy-pasting. The lightweight binary runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, supports YAML and JSON front-matter, and offers a guided prompt mode for consistent wording across contributors. Typical use cases range from open-source maintainers who need friction-free release pages to enterprise teams auditing feature parity across distributed micro-services. Because changie keeps its metadata under version control, rollback and diff inspection become as straightforward as any other source file, satisfying compliance requirements while preserving an authoritative narrative of product evolution. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always providing the latest release and enabling batch installation alongside other applications.