docs(changelog): make English the source language for release notes (1.36.0+) - #75
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English is now the source language for release notes, matching commits and PRs. The Updates page (templates/admin/update.html:48) renders the notes body verbatim with no notion of language, so an admin running the system in English or Spanish was handed a block of Portuguese inside a translated frame. Entries from 1.36.0 to 1.39.1 (14 of them) are translated faithfully: same structure, same sections, same items and order, with versions, file paths, route names and code identifiers left literal. Nothing was reworded, merged, added or dropped. Entries below 1.36.0 stay in Portuguese behind an explicit boundary marker. They are historical record; retranslating them would risk altering what was actually written at the time. No VERSION bump: this is a documentation fix, not a release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
The app is trilingual (PT/EN/ES), but
templates/admin/update.html:48dumps the release-notes body raw, with no notion of language: the frame around it is translated, the content is not. An admin running the system in English gets a block of Portuguese.CLAUDE.mdalso describes these notes as "written for people on the outside" in an open project — which Portuguese contradicts.So English becomes the source language for release notes, matching the commits and PRs, which are already in English.
What changed
CHANGELOG.mdonly. No code, noVERSIONbump — this is a documentation fix, not a release.## [1.36.0]through## [1.39.1].file:linepointers, route names, code identifiers, PR/issue IDs and CWE numbers are left literal. Nothing was reworded for clarity, merged, added or removed.(sem marca),(sem local), …) are deliberately kept literal — they are the strings being described, not prose.Why the older entries stay in Portuguese
Everything below 1.36.0 is untouched, behind an explicit boundary marker in the file:
CLAUDE.mdforbids rewriting or inventing existing entries. Translating recent notes preserves the record; retranslating years of history is a much larger surface on which to silently corrupt it. A visible language boundary is honest; a subtly wrong translation is not.Verify
.\run-tests.ps1— 249 passed (unchanged)._slice_changelogkeys off## [x.y.z]headers only, and those are untouched.grep -c '^## \[' CHANGELOG.md→ 104, unchanged: no entry gained or lost.git diff origin/main -- CHANGELOG.md | grep '^-' | grep -E "1\.35|1\.34|1\.33"→ empty: nothing below 1.36.0 was removed.git diff --stat origin/main→CHANGELOG.mdonly.🤖 Generated with Claude Code