Release Notes Generator

Takes the diff of two releases, finds all pull requests involved, and takes out their release notes and orders them into features/improvements/bugs.

Usage

An example workflow is included at ./.github/workflows/main.yml

name: Generate release notes for Replicated KOTS
on: [push]

jobs:
  test_action_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Generate release notes
    steps:
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - id: test-action
      uses: replicatedhq/release-notes-generator@main
      with:
        owner-repo: replicatedhq/kots
        base: 'v1.81.1'
        head: 'v1.82.0'
        title: '1.82.0'
        description: 'Support for Kubernetes: 1.21, 1.22, 1.23, and 1.24'
        include-pr-links: false
        github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    - name: Print the output
      run: echo "${{ steps.test-action.outputs.release-notes }}"

Inputs

owner-repo (required)

The owner/repo of the Github repository to be used.

base (optional)

The release tag to use as the base of the release notes diff.

head (required)

The release tag to use as the head of the release notes diff.

title

The release notes title.

description

Description to be added to the release notes.

include-pr-links

Include links back to pull requests.

github-token

Github API token to use to avoid rate limiting.

Outputs

release-notes

The generated release notes markdown.