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@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Shopware is available under MIT license. If you want to contribute code (feature
 If you want more details about available licensing or the contribution agreements we offer, you can contact us at <contact@shopware.com>.
 
 ## Contributing to the Shopware code base
-If you want to learn how to contribute code to Shopware, please refer to [Contributing Code](https://docs.shopware.com/en/shopware-platform-dev-en/contribution/contributing-code?category=shopware-platform-dev-en/contribution).  
+If you want to learn how to contribute code to Shopware, please refer to [Contributing Code](https://docs.shopware.com/en/shopware-platform-dev-en/contribution/contributing-code?category=shopware-platform-dev-en/contribution).
+Also make sure that you add a changelog file which describes your changes in a meaningful way. For more information refer to [this document](https://github.com/shopware/platform/blob/master/adr/2020-08-03-Implement-New-Changelog.md#workflow).
 
 ## Documentation