Generating a changelog from your git commits

If you do some kind of software development, you probably are familiar with changelogs. These changelogs are especially useful for other people who don’t work on your project to at a glance know what’s new in X version.

However, maintaining this kind of files is always a pain and requires a lot of manual labor. Today, I will show you how we can achieve something similar with only using git.

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Scanning for vulnerabilities in your dependencies

A while ago, I was working for a client that had a specific requirement: they wanted to check for the OWASP top ten security risks.

If you are not aware of what these lists are, OWASP is a well known non-profit organization that provides security related resources. They also make these security reports which take into account their own data and the community’s to list the top ten most common security risks of that year.

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