View changelog for a package in Fedora/CentOS/Redhat

A really cool, and handy, feature of rpm is the ability to view the changelog for a package you’ve installed, or recently updated:

$ rpm -q --changelog gnome-shell | less

* Wed Apr 16 2014 Florian Müllner <fmuellner@redhat.com> - 3.8.4-32
- Improve vertical monitor layouts
  Resolves: rhbz#1096186

* Wed Mar 19 2014 Florian Müllner <fmuellner@redhat.com> - 3.8.4-31
- Fix some more background memory leaks
  Resolves: rhbz#1027192

* Wed Mar 12 2014 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> 3.8.4-30
- Fix automatic shield lifting when smartcard is inserted
  Resolves: #1063488

* Mon Mar 10 2014 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> 3.8.4-29
- Don't show user list if require smartcard is true
  Resolves: #1063390

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