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+# Changelog
+
+This changelog documents all notable user-facing changes of Threat Bus.
+
+Every entry has a category for which we use the following visual abbreviations:
+
+- 🎁 feature
+- 🧬 experimental feature
+- ⚠️ change
+- 🐞 bugfix
+
+## Unreleased
+
+- 🎁 Threat Bus now ships with a `CHANGELOG.md` that documents all notable
+  user-facing changes of the project.
+  [#48](https://github.com/tenzir/threatbus/pull/48)