diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 13d2ab625..1b78130e8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@
 * Packer users can now track Packer version and plugin versions used for each
      build artifact in HCP Packer.
      [GH-12866](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12866)
-
+* hcl2: add textencodebase64 and textdecodebase64 funcs
+     For feature parity with Terraform, and since having access to strings
+     encoded in something that is not UTF-8 is required in some cases, we add
+     both the textencodebase64 and textdecodebase64 functions to HCL2 templates.
+     Please note these functions return base64 encoded byte slices because of how
+     cty/hcl defines strings (NFC normalised, UTF-8 encoded).
+     [GH-12997](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12997)
 
 ### SECURITY:
 * Bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 to address GHSA-c5q2-7r4c-mv6g.
@@ -39,7 +45,6 @@
 * Bump golang.org/x/net to v0.24.0 to address GO-2024-2687.
      [GH-12924](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12924)
 
-
 ### IMPROVEMENTS:
 * core: Bump github.com/hashicorp/hcp-sdk-go from 0.90.0 to 0.96.0.
      [GH-12935](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12935)
@@ -48,26 +53,12 @@
      [GH-12979](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12979)
 * core: Bump github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-sdk from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3
      [GH-12932](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12932)
-* .github: updated actions in preparation for Node 16 deprecation
-     [GH-12959](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12959)
-     [GH-12958](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12958)
-     [GH-12957](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12957)
-     [GH-12956](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12956)
-* .github: Bump go version to 1.12.10
-     [GH-12984](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12984)
 * core: Bump go-getter/v2 from 2.2.1 to v2.2.2
      [GH-12988](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12988)
 * datasource/http: don't error on 2xx code
      Previous versions of Packer only supported 200 as a success case for the http
      datasource. This change makes any status code from 200 to 299 successful.
      [GH-12989](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12989)
-* hcl2: add textencodebase64 and textdecodebase64 funcs
-     For feature parity with Terraform, and since having access to strings
-     encoded in something that is not UTF-8 is required in some cases, we add
-     both the textencodebase64 and textdecodebase64 functions to HCL2 templates.
-     Please note these functions return base64 encoded byte slices because of how
-     cty/hcl defines strings (NFC normalised, UTF-8 encoded).
-     [GH-12997](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12997)
 * core: Move to predictable plugin loading schema -  Packer will now only load
      plugins stored under the [Packer plugin directory](https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/docs/configure#packer-s-plugin-directory) using the expected namespaced
      directory and CHECKSUM files.
@@ -103,7 +94,7 @@
 * core: don't load plugins with metadata in name
      To avoid confusion with multiple plugins that report the same effective version,
      plugins installed need to have no metadata in their name.
-     When installed through packer commands, the metadata is scrubbed from the name of the
+     When installed through Packer commands, the metadata is scrubbed from the name of the
      installed plugin binary, but manually it may still be possible, so we enforce
      that scrubbing at load-time as well.
      [GH-12980](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12980)
@@ -168,10 +159,10 @@ If, however, a 1.1.1 release version of the plugin is available, it will have pr
 * core/hcp: fix potential race condition when storing plugin details to the HCP
      Packer metadata storage map.
      [GH-12936](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12936)
-* core: fix listing on windows with .exe ext
-     This bug fix addresses some bugs present in the alpha releases of 1.11, where
-     while revising the loading routines for Packer, we broke discovery for certain
-     commands on Windows builds.
+* core: fix plugin listing on Windows
+     This fix addresses bugs present in the alpha releases of 1.11, where
+     the discovery of Windows binaries were not matching against the
+     filename extension (.exe).
      [GH-12981](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/12981)
 
 ## 1.10.3 (April 22, 2024)
diff --git a/scripts/prepare_changelog.sh b/scripts/prepare_changelog.sh
index a10b9972b..cf2343ea7 100755
--- a/scripts/prepare_changelog.sh
+++ b/scripts/prepare_changelog.sh
@@ -49,8 +49,6 @@ get_prs | while read line; do
     if [[ "$line" =~ "bad" ]]; then
         exit 1
     fi
-    echo "Press enter to continue with next entry."
-    vared -ch ok
 done
 
 #TODO: just generate it automatically using PR titles and tags