changelog - check whether releases are relevant #3319

Describe the feature

Currently package changelog only checks whether releases are being used by a repo. not whether they're still relevant.

my current concept to fix this is as followed:

1. when requesting the latest release, check the publish date against the package request version release date
2. if the release is at least 2 weeks old, check changelog.md
3. if changelog.md is newer (only by date, not time) serve the changelog.md instead.

currently the package I know that switched from releases to changelog.md is vue3-codemirror

What I've currently researched:

• for github you'll need to get the latest commit of a file and then either check last-modified header or commit.commiter.date field, the file api does also have the header but isn't accurate and doesn't have and an lastEdited field
  • https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits?path={path_to_file}&page=1&per_page=1
  • example: https://api.github.com/repos/npmx-dev/npmx.dev/commits?path=README.md&page=1&per_page=1
  • docs: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/commits/commits?apiVersion=2026-03-10#list-commits

Additional information

• Would you be willing to help implement this feature?

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