diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG_OLD.md
similarity index 100%
rename from CHANGELOG.md
rename to CHANGELOG_OLD.md
diff --git a/cliff.toml b/cliff.toml
index a4ebbd9d7..2938b74f1 100644
--- a/cliff.toml
+++ b/cliff.toml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ postprocessors = [
 # parse the commits based on https://www.conventionalcommits.org
 conventional_commits = true
 # filter out the commits that are not conventional
-filter_unconventional = false
+filter_unconventional = true
 # process each line of a commit as an individual commit
 split_commits = false
 # regex for preprocessing the commit messages