Smarter YAML front matter parser, used by metalsmith, Gatsby, Netlify, Assemble, mapbox-gl, phenomic, vuejs vitepress, TinaCMS, Shopify Polaris, Ant Design, Astro, hashicorp, garden, slidev, saber, sourcegraph, and many others. Simple to use, and battle tested. Parses YAML by default but can also parse JSON Front Matter, Coffee Front Matter, TOML Front Matter, and has support for custom parsers. Please follow gray-matter's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
It's hard to find the 'releases' section buried near the end of the huge Readme. (No complaint about the huge readme; that's great!)
Best practice is to keep a dedicated CHANGELOG.md file. This makes it easy to find out what breaking changes are in a new major release (for example).
See http://keepachangelog.com/ for more info.