simbo/action-semver-release-action

A simple and lightning-fast GitHub action to create releases for actions based on semantic version tags and move major, minor and latest tags accordingly.

Usage

Add simbo/action-semver-release-action@latest to your workflow.

Make sure your tags have a valid semantic versioning format and start with a v.

If you create or push a version tag like v1.2.3, this action will move or create the tags v1, v1.2 and latest to the same position and creates a GitHub release.

The action is meant to be run on a push:tags event.

Unfortunately, you still have to publish your action release to the GitHub marketplace manually as there is no way to automate this at the moment.

Example

name: Release

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v*'

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions: write-all
    steps:
      - name: 🛎 Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: 📦 Create Release
        uses: simbo/action-semver-release-action@latest

Inputs

Option	Required	Default	Description
token	no	${{ github.token }}	GitHub Repo Access Token (needs permission to write tags and releases)
create-release	no	'true'	whether to create a GitHub release
release-name	no	'Release %TAG%'	The name of the created release
release-body	no	''	The description of the created release

All appearances of %TAG% in release-name and release-body will be replaced with the version tag.

Development

Creating a new Version

Use ./release.sh <major|minor|patch> which will update package.json and create a git tag for the respective version.

A release workflow will pick up the tag when pushed to GitHub, create a release and move major, minor and latest tags accordingly.

To publish the release into the GitHub marketplace open releases and update the release for marketplace publishing.

License and Author

MIT © 2022 Simon Lepel