v.8.4.4 to 8.5.1

• Ensure Git error messages are outputted in English. This is needed because the tool parses the error messages (#387)
• Add support for backporting multiple PRs at once via backport --pr 1 --pr 2(#395)
• Refactor and improvements when using the inspect flag (--ls) (#392)

v8.4.3

Fixes "Author identity unknown" bug (sorenlouv/backport-github-action#41)

v8.4.0

• Add signoff option by @iliapolo in #336

v8.3.1

• fix: —until and —since should apply when using —pr-filter in #329
• fix: only show shield.io badge for public repos in #328

v8.3.0

• Validate target user specified branch #324 #325

v8.1.0

8.1.0 changes (#319)

• Replace option ci with interactive
• Add options: publishStatusCommentOnSuccess,publishStatusCommentOnFailure and publishStatusCommentOnAbort
• Rename HandledError to BackportError
• Improvements to tests

v8.0.0

Fix formatting of github comment (#317)

New signature of backportRun

const result = await backportRun({
  options: {
    accessToken: '...',
    repoOwner: 'elastic',
    repoName: 'kibana',
    pullNumber: 12
  }
});

Other improvements

• Improved json output when running in CI
• Added exitCodeOnFailure to prevent the process from setting a non-zero exit code on failure
• replace insecure exec with slightly more secure spawn
• Lots of tests

v7.4.0

Don’t exit with error if individual backports fail (#316)
This limits the usage of process.exit(1) to only be used in cli mode and only for unexpected/critical errors.

v7.3.0

What's Changed

• fix: Add filepath to conflict message (#306)
• feature: Infer git config user.email and git config user.name (#307)

v7.2.0

• Feature: Output json (instead of text) when running in --ci mode (#300)
• Feature: Add support for merge commits (#303)