How to view release notes / changelog with pacman

Question

Like many fellow archers, I use pacman to update my software each day. Often there are updates like this:

foo-1.1 ---> foo.1.2

I wonder if there's a way to see what has been updated from foo-1.1 to foo-1.2 or release notes explaining bug fixes or new features etc. Something like pacman -Log foo.

Answer 1

From the manual:

QUERY OPTIONS
   -c, --changelog
       View the ChangeLog of a package. Not every package will provide one but it will be shown if available.

So, if you wanted the changelog for the vim package, for example, you would do: pacman -Qc vim.

Answer 2

A better solution would be to use pacolog, which at least shows you the package commits, e.g.pacolog -l 3 vim