release-notes.yml

name: Generate Release Notes

on:
  release:
    types: [created]
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      toTag:
        description: 'Tag or ref for which to generate release notes'
        required: true
      fromTag:
        # If you leave this blank, it'll select previous SemVer version
        # WARNING: Cannot use anything older than a005498 because of the git tree merge
        description: 'Tag or ref from which to start generating release notes'
        required: false


jobs:
  generate_release_notes:
    name: Generate Release Notes
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Build Release Notes
        id: release-notes
        uses: mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action@v4.1.1
        with:
          configuration: .github/workflows/config/release-notes.json
          failOnError: true
          # Amazingly, on release where the inputs are empty, this just does the right thing
          # The "toTag" is the released tag, and the "fromTag" is the previous tag according to SemVer
          fromTag: ${{ github.event.inputs.fromTag }}
          toTag: ${{ github.event.inputs.toTag }}
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - name: Report Release Notes
        # Put output through env variable to make it robust to quotes
        env:
          CHANGELOG: ${{steps.release-notes.outputs.changelog}}
        run: echo "$CHANGELOG" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
      - name: Upload Release Notes (on release)
        if: github.event_name == 'release'
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2.0.5
        with:
          body: ${{ steps.release-notes.outputs.changelog }}
      - name: Error on uncategorized PRs
        if: steps.release-notes.outputs.uncategorized_prs != 0
        run: exit 1