[Release] Automate most manual steps by acstll · Pull Request #9419 · elastic/eui

acstll · 2026-03-02T09:41:28Z

Summary

This PR adds 2 scripts to automate some of the manual steps involved in the release process.

yarn release:prep helps create the release PR
yarn release:publish adds the git tag and triggers the workflow, once the PR has been merged

TODO

add a step at the very end to create the "release" in GitHub using gh as well
add a "dirty worktree" check before pushing in the prep script, and probably prompt the user about that to do…

Note

I used this script for the v113.1.0 release

Why are we making this change?

To save time and prevent errors.

Important

I'm happy to close this if you don't think this is a good idea or has little value

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Impact to users

None, internal.

QA

The one (and probably only) way to test this is to actually use it for a real release. If you're feeling adventurous, you can run the script below to get the scripts installed on your .local/bin folder, so you can run them standalone…

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/acstll/eui/feat/release-automation/scripts/release-install.sh)

then from the eui root:

release-prep.sh

to create the release PR, and then

release-publish.sh

to publish.

weronikaolejniczak · 2026-03-03T09:41:01Z

I'm happy to close this if you don't think this is a good idea or has little value

This is absolutely a good idea and has great value, Arturo! It's a great call and I'm happy you found time to do this during support week ❤️ Is there anything I can do to push this forward? Do you need a pre-review?

acstll · 2026-03-23T12:57:56Z

+step "1/5" "Updating main branch..."
+git checkout main
+git pull upstream main
+


we should probably also do git fetch upstream --tags here

addressed in efb7da0

…tion

- Add dirty worktree checks to prep script - Add `git fetch upstream --tags` to publish script - Add GitHub release creation step with changelog extraction - Extract shared package list to variable - Trim verbose comments Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Allows trying the release scripts locally without checking out the branch, via curl one-liner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Pull request overview

Adds internal automation scripts to streamline EUI’s official release flow by reducing manual git/GitHub CLI steps.

Changes:

Add scripts/release-prep.sh to create a release branch and open a release PR after running the release CLI in dry-run mode.
Add scripts/release-publish.sh to tag the merged release commit, trigger the release.yml workflow, and create a GitHub release.
Add scripts/release-install.sh plus package.json yarn scripts to make running these workflows easier.

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File	Description
scripts/release-prep.sh	Automates pre-release PR creation steps (branching, release CLI dry run, PR creation).
scripts/release-publish.sh	Automates post-merge publish steps (tagging, workflow trigger, GitHub release creation).
scripts/release-install.sh	Convenience installer to place scripts into `~/.local/bin`.
package.json	Adds `yarn release:prep` and `yarn release:publish` script entries.

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tkajtoch · 2026-04-28T11:19:11Z

We should probably delete this file before merging. We can't use personal forks, gists, and other resources for such purposes, because they could expire someday, and are a short path to pwning someone internal

you're completely right, that was the intention but i didn't flag it and i had forgotten myself haha, removed it 0588968

tkajtoch · 2026-04-28T11:22:39Z

+PREV_TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 "${MERGE_SHA}^" 2>/dev/null) || error "Could not find a previous release tag"
+
+# Detect changed workspaces and collect changelog entries for the GitHub release
+CHANGED_WORKSPACES=""


Nit: You can now get it directly from .release/published_packages.json, but I'm happy to leave it as-is for the time being

let's do so, and of course use the new .release/published_packages.json when porting to CI ✨

tkajtoch

I'm adding a "request changes" review just to prevent merging before release-install.sh is removed. I'll approve straight after!

elasticmachine · 2026-04-28T15:27:36Z

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elasticmachine · 2026-04-28T15:45:33Z

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[Release] Automate some manual steps (WIP)

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acstll added the skip-changelog Use on PRs to skip changelog requirement (Don't delete - used for automation) label Mar 2, 2026

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main' into feat/release-automa…

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[Release] Add install script for reviewers

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Allows trying the release scripts locally without checking out the branch, via curl one-liner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Remove local install script

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[Release] Bail early if working tree is dirty in release-publish.sh

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

acstll enabled auto-merge (squash) April 30, 2026 10:12

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acstll merged commit 9794ee4 into elastic:main Apr 30, 2026
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