GitHub Action
Publish Release
A GitHub Action to publish a draft release.
actions/create-release can create a draft release, and then actions/upload-release-asset can upload builds and finally this action can publish the release.
This has the advantage that the latest release link (https://github.com/owner/repo/releases/latest) always points to a fully-built release.
Note that the release must not be marked as prerelease for this to work.
This also means it's possible to have a stable URL for a release asset which always has the same filename: https://github.com/owner/repo/releases/latest/download/asset-filename.tar.gz
Those URLs are documented in GitHub Help.
Minimal example workflow:
jobs:
release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Create Draft Release
id: create_release
uses: actions/create-release@v1
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
tag_name: <tofill>
release_name: <tofill>
draft: true
prerelease: false
- uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
upload_url: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.upload_url }}
asset_path: ./my-artifact.zip
asset_name: my-artifact.zip
asset_content_type: application/zip
- uses: eregon/publish-release@v1
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
with:
release_id: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.id }}
Unfortunately, both actions/create-release and actions/upload-release-asset are archived and using an outdated node version.
A good alternative is to use the gh CLI tool available in GitHub Actions, like here.