This GitHub Action (written in Typescript) wraps the GitHub Release API, specifically the Create a Release endpoint, to allow you to leverage GitHub Actions to create releases.
Create a workflow .yml
file in your .github/workflows
directory. An example workflow is available below. For more information, reference the GitHub Help Documentation for Creating a workflow file.
For more information on these inputs, see the API Documentation
tag_name
: The name of the tag for this releaserelease_name
: The name of the releasebody
: Text describing the contents of the release. Optional, and not needed if usingbody_path
.body_path
: A file with contents describing the release. Optional, and not needed if usingbody
.draft
:true
to create a draft (unpublished) release,false
to create a published one. Default:false
prerelease
:true
to identify the release as a prerelease.false
to identify the release as a full release. Default:false
commitish
: Any branch or commit SHA the Git tag is created from, unused if the Git tag already exists. Default: SHA of current commitowner
: The name of the owner of the repo. Used to identify the owner of the repository. Used when cutting releases for external repositories. Default: Current ownerrepo
: The name of the repository. Used to identify the repository on which to release. Used when cutting releases for external repositories. Default: Current repository
The body_path
is valuable for dynamically creating a .md
within code commits and even within the Github Action steps leading up to the create-release
.
For more information on these outputs, see the API Documentation for an example of what these outputs look like
id
: The release IDhtml_url
: The URL users can navigate to in order to view the release. i.e.https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/releases/v1.0.0
upload_url
: The URL for uploading assets to the release, which could be used by GitHub Actions for additional uses, for example the@actions/upload-release-asset
GitHub Action
On every push
to a tag matching the pattern v*
, create a release:
on:
push:
# Sequence of patterns matched against refs/tags
tags:
- 'v*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10
name: Create Release
jobs:
build:
name: Create Release
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Create Release
id: create_release
uses: KaiWedekind/[email protected]
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # This token is provided by Actions, you do not need to create your own token
with:
tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
release_name: Release ${{ github.ref }}
body: |
Changes in this Release
- First Change
- Second Change
draft: false
prerelease: false
This will create a Release, as well as a release
event, which could be handled by a third party service, or by GitHub Actions for additional uses, for example the @actions/upload-release-asset
GitHub Action. This uses the GITHUB_TOKEN
provided by the virtual environment, so no new token is needed.
The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License