Version 1.3.0

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

1.3.0 - 2022-02-11

Added

• RELEASE_HEAD.md is not created from README.md if it does not exist yet.

Version 1.2.0

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

1.2.0 - 2022-01-11

Added

• Test case for missing URL for footnote-style markdown link in CHANGELOG.md
• Icon and color info in YAML file.

Changed

• Split main script into multiple steps and added more output for better debugging.
• Final grep step is now only run if the link pattern can actually be found in the changelog.
  If not, a warning is printed.
• Switches to uses: ./ to use local version of action in all CI/CD scripts.
  This avoids the need to specify the action version within the CI/CD scripts and ensures that the current version is used.
• Uses GitHub CLI instead of unmaintained actions/create-release both in README example and release script.
• Adjusted name and description in YAML file to match requirements of GH marketplace.

Fixed

• Major version tags for actions such as v1 should always point to the most recent version with that prefix.
  This was not true for v1 in this repo before.

Release v1.1.0

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

1.1.0 - 2022-01-04

Added

• input variable working-directory to work with repositories checked out in a subfolder

Changed

• CI tests are now also run on the branch dev in addition to main

Fixed

• Makes YAML files fully conform to GitHub Action schema

Release v1.0.0

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

1.0.0 - 2021-05-25

Changed

• adds shorthand tag v1 for use in GitHub action workflows
• otherwise same as 0.2.1

Release v0.2.1

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

0.2.1

Added

• parameter link-pattern that allows to extract footnote-style link for version from changelog

Changed

• changelog now also contains links that allow to compare versions on github

Release v0.2.0

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[0.2.0]

Changed

• renames start-pattern to begin-pattern for better naming consistency (begin/end instead of start/end)
• adds surrounding slashes to begin-pattern and end-pattern, so that other sed patterns like $ can be used

Release v0.1.9

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[0.1.9]

Added

• input variable chop to control how many lines are removed from the end of the matching part of CHANGELOG.md

Changed

• the variables startPattern and endPattern are now called start-pattern and end-pattern instead

Release v0.1.8

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[0.1.8]

Fixed

• turns out that inputs are not actually saved as $INPUT_VARNAME for composite actions => use ${{ input.varname }} instead

Release v0.1.5

release-notes-from-changelog

GitHub action that extracts release notes from an existing changelog.

Changes in this version:

[0.1.5]

Fixed

• bash if syntax was wrong (need = instead of == and quotes around variable)
• adds missing checkout action to test script