diff --git a/.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml b/.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml
index 0c6648f..b732e6f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/prepare-release.yml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ jobs:
 
             const changelog = prs.data.items.map(
               pr => `* [#${pr.number}](${pr.html_url}): ${pr.title}`
-            ).join('\n\n')
+            ).join('\n')
             core.exportVariable('CHANGELOG', changelog)
 
             var readme = fs.readFileSync('README.md', 'utf8')
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index db64499..df3ade1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,30 +57,22 @@ This is a changelog describing the most important changes per release.
 
 * [#18](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/18): Make
   `online_column_minima` generic in matrix type.
-
 * [#23](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/23): Switch to the
   [Rust 2018][rust-2018] edition. We test against the latest stable
   and nightly version of Rust.
-
 * [#29](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/29): Drop strict Rust
   2018 compatibility by not testing with Rust 1.31.0.
-
 * [#32](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/32): Fix crash on
   overflow in `is_monge`.
-
 * [#33](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/33): Update `rand`
   dependency to latest version and get rid of `rand_derive`.
-
 * [#34](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/34): Bump `num-traits`
   and `version-sync` dependencies to latest versions.
-
 * [#35](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/35): Drop unnecessary
   Windows tests. The assumption is that the numeric computations we do
   are cross-platform.
-
 * [#36](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/36): Update `ndarray`
   dependency to the latest version.
-
 * [#37](https://github.com/mgeisler/smawk/pull/37): Automate
   publishing new releases to crates.io.