release

release

Generates release notes from git history and publishes a GitHub release.

Commits are grouped automatically by prefix: [feat], [fix], [refactor], [docs], and others.

Requires fetch-depth: 0 on the preceding actions/checkout step to access full git history.

Usage

- uses: dwesh163/actions/release@main
  with:
    version: "1.2.3"
    github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Inputs

Name	Required	Description
version	yes	Version to release, without the v prefix
github-token	yes	Token used to create the GitHub release

Example

jobs:
  create-release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
    permissions:
      contents: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: dwesh163/actions/release@main
        with:
          version: ${{ needs.detect-version.outputs.version }}
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}