ci: generate new release notes

.circleci/config.yml

@@ -31,19 +31,10 @@ jobs:
               sed -i "s/EXTENDNO=.*/EXTENDNO=${MINOR_VER}/g" release/src-rt/version.conf
             fi
       - run:
-          name: Generate changelog (only for tags)
+          name: Generate changelog
           command: |
-            REGXP_TO_MATCH=.*gnuton.*
-            if [[ ${CIRCLE_TAG} =~ ${REGXP_TO_MATCH} ]]; then
-              CURRENT_TAG=${CIRCLE_TAG}
-              PREVIOUS_TAG=$(git tag --sort=-version:refname | grep -vE "snapshot|beta|alpha|${CIRCLE_TAG}" | grep ${REGXP_TO_MATCH} | head -n 1)
-              echo "Generating logs between the tags ${PREVIOUS_TAG} and ${CURRENT_TAG}"
-              echo "Changes from the latest stable gnuton build (${PREVIOUS_TAG}):" > "${CHANGELOG_FILE}"
-              git log ${PREVIOUS_TAG}...${CURRENT_TAG} --pretty=format:'* %s' --reverse | grep -vE 'Merge branch|ci:|Bump' >> "${CHANGELOG_FILE}" || echo "WARNING: The Changelog is empty!!"
-              cat "${CHANGELOG_FILE}"
-            else
-              echo "No changelog to generate. Changelog is generated only for tags matching ${REGXP_TO_MATCH}";
-            fi;
+            python tools/get-last-notes.py > "${CHANGELOG_FILE}"
+            cat "${CHANGELOG_FILE}"
       - run:
           name: Build firmware
           shell: /bin/bash

tools/get-last-notes.py

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+import re
+from datetime import date
+
+today=date.today()
+CHANGELOG_FILE='Changelog-NG.txt'
+MSG="""##  GNUton's Asus Merlin changelog  ##\n"""
+latest_release = None
+latest_changes = list()
+
+with open(CHANGELOG_FILE) as f:
+
+    rx = re.compile('^(\d[^()]+)\s.*$')
+
+    for line in f:
+        release_search = rx.search(line)
+
+        if release_search:
+            if latest_release:
+                break
+            else:
+                latest_release = release_search.group(1)
+        else:
+            if latest_release:
+                latest_changes.append(line)
+
+    print(MSG)
+    print('Date: %s' % today.strftime("%B %d, %Y"))
+    print('Release: %s\n' % latest_release)
+    print("".join(latest_changes))