chore(release): drop generated CHANGELOG.md, GitHub Releases only

RELEASING.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Semantic-release analyzes Conventional Commits since the last `v*` tag. `feat` p
 
 `hdrify`, `hdrify-cli`, and `hdrify-react` share one version and publish in dependency order via `pnpm publish` (through `@anolilab/semantic-release-pnpm`, one plugin instance per package), which updates each `package.json` version and rewrites any `workspace:*` internal dependency to a resolved semver range natively. The VS Code extension (`packages/hdrify-vscode-extension`) shares the same version stream — `release.config.js` pins its `package.json` version to `nextRelease.version` alongside the npm packages — but is never `npm publish`'d; instead it's built, packaged with `vsce`, and published to the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX Registry (`scripts/release-vscode-extension.mjs`), requiring the `VSCE_PAT` and `OVSX_PAT` repository secrets. The website retains its existing delivery path. Source package versions are development snapshots; the authoritative released version is the Git tag/npm version. Each package's `files` field ships built JS and declarations, and npm/pnpm packing conventions include the package's own README and LICENSE automatically. It does not write version commits to protected branches.
 
-Each GitHub Release contains generated release notes, a `CHANGELOG.md` for that release, and all three npm tarballs. [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/bhouston/hdrify/releases) is the cumulative changelog. The generated file is not committed back to source.
+Each GitHub Release contains generated release notes and all three npm tarballs. [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/bhouston/hdrify/releases) is the cumulative changelog of record; releases never write a `CHANGELOG.md` back to source.
 
 The release job waits for the complete reusable CI suite and only runs from a manual dispatch against `main`. Releases are serialized and never cancel an in-progress publish.
 

package.json

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
     "@anolilab/semantic-release-pnpm": "^8.1.25",
     "@commitlint/cli": "^21.2.2",
     "@commitlint/config-conventional": "^21.2.2",
-    "@semantic-release/changelog": "^7.0.0",
     "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer": "^13.0.1",
     "@semantic-release/github": "^12.0.9",
     "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator": "^14.1.1",

release.config.js

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ export default {
   plugins: [
     ['@semantic-release/commit-analyzer', { preset: 'conventionalcommits' }],
     ['@semantic-release/release-notes-generator', { preset: 'conventionalcommits' }],
-    ['@semantic-release/changelog', { changelogFile: 'CHANGELOG.md' }],
     // pkgRoot only (no tarballDir): @anolilab/semantic-release-pnpm's
     // tarballDir option shells out to `pnpm pack <pkgRoot>`, which pnpm
     // silently ignores in favor of packing the cwd (verified with pnpm
@@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ export default {
     [
       '@semantic-release/github',
       {
-        assets: ['CHANGELOG.md', 'release-artifacts/*.tgz'],
+        assets: ['release-artifacts/*.tgz'],
         successComment: false,
         failComment: false,
         releasedLabels: false,