Update changelog in prep for 1.5.0 release

and include it in the generated docs, plus remove redundant content of
CONTRIBUTING while cleaning up

Connected to rstudio/connect#17604

.gitignore

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 htmlcov
 /tests/testdata/**/rsconnect-python/
 /docs/docs/index.md
+/docs/docs/changelog.md

CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Added
+### Changed
+### Deprecated
+### Removed
+### Fixed
+### Security
+
+## [1.5.0] - 2020-TBD
+
+### Added
+- support for deploying Streamlit and Bokeh applications
+- improved handling of HTTP timeouts
+- CI verification on macos with python3.8
+- trigger [rsconnect-jupyter](https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-jupyter) workflow on
+  successful pushes to main branch
+
+### Changed
+- default exclusion list to include common virtual environment directory names (`env`,
+  `venv`, `.env`, and `.venv`)
+- environment internally represented as data class instead of dict
+- replace all internal "compatibility mode" references with "conda mode"
+- CI moved to GitHub Actions
+
+### Removed
+- generation and publishing of `sdist` artifact
+
+### Fixed
+- explicitly set the `--to-html` option to `nbconvert` when publishing a static notebook,
+  as required by the latest version of `nbconvert`
+
+
+## [1.4.5] - 2020-04-10
+
+### Changed
+- provide clearer feedback when errors happen while building bundles from a manifest
+- pin required versions of the `click` and `six` libraries that we use
+- help text touch up
+
+### Fixed
+- output alignment under Python 2
+
+
+## [1.4.4] - 2020-04-02
+
+### Changed
+- converted a traceback to a more appropriate message
+- updated `CookieJar` class to support marshalling/un-marshalling
+  to/from a dictionary
+
+### Fixed
+- an issue with cookie jar continuity across connections
+
+
+## [1.4.3] - 2020-04-01
+
+### Changed
+- being more distinguishing between a server that's not running Connect and a credentials
+  problem
+
+
+## [1.4.2] - 2020-03-27
+
+### Added
+- more helpful feedback when a "requested object does not exist" error is returned by
+  Connect
+
+### Changed
+- be more distinguishing between a server that's not running Connect and a credentials
+  problem
+
+### Fixed
+- an issue where cookie header size could grow inappropriately (#107)
+- corrected the instructions to enable auto-completion
+
+
+## [1.4.1] - 2020-03-26
+
+### Fixed
+- sticky sessions so we will track deploys correctly when RStudio Connect is in an
+  HA/clustered environment
+
+
+## [1.4.0] - 2020-03-16
+
+### Added
+- functions in `actions` that provide the same functionality as the CLI
+
+### Changed
+- command line handling of options is more consistent across all commands
+- `test` command replaced with a more broadly functional `details` command
+- errors handled much more consistently and are more informative
+- CLI output is more clean
+- overall code has been refactored and improved for clarity, testability and stability
+- all CLI help has been improved for consistency, correctness and completeness
+- many documentation improvements in content and appearance
+
+
+## [1.3.0] - 2020-01-07
+
+### Added
+- first release
+
+
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/compare/1.5.0...HEAD
+[1.5.0]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/compare/1.4.5...1.5.0
+[1.4.5]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/compare/1.4.4...1.4.5
+[1.4.4]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/compare/1.4.3...1.4.4
+[1.4.3]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/compare/1.4.2...1.4.3
+[1.4.2]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/compare/1.4.1...1.4.2
+[1.4.1]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/compare/1.4.0...1.4.1
+[1.4.0]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/compare/1.3.0...1.4.0
+[1.3.0]: https://github.com/rstudio/rsconnect-python/releases/tag/1.3.0

docs/Makefile

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 	docker build -t $(MKDOCS_IMAGE) .
 
 .PHONY: build
-build: docs/index.md
+build: docs/index.md docs/changelog.md
 	$(BUILD_RUNNER) mkdocs build
-	@rm docs/index.md
 
 docs/index.md: $(CURDIR)/../README.md
 	python3 patch_admonitions.py
+
+docs/changelog.md: $(CURDIR)/../CHANGELOG.md
+	cp -v $^ $@

docs/mkdocs.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ plugins:
 nav:
   - index.md
   - API: mkapi/api/rsconnect
+  - changelog.md
 
 theme:
   name: material