New Tagged Release

Overview

The NewTaggedRelease GitHub Action is designed to create a GitHub release automatically for you.

Workflow File

You can trigger the action.yml by workflow_call to create the release automatically. The workflow contains several steps to act:

1. Checkout the repository
2. Call the newtaggedrelease.ps1 script

Workflow Inputs

• name: This is the name of the release, if empty, this is set to version
• version: This is the version
• body: The body of the release
• prerelease: Mark this as a pre-prerelease
• releasenotes: Add the generated releasenotes
• verbose: A value of verbose will output additional information. This input is not required.
• github_token: This is the built-in Github Token; this is passed as an environment variable. This input is required.

PowerShell Script (newtaggedrelease.ps1)

The PowerShell script uses the GitHub API to create a release. It parses the project file to determine the version number; this is then assigned to the tag_name and name property of the release.

Usage

There are a few different ways to use this action; here are a few examples to get you started.

jobs:
  create_release:
    uses: mod-posh/NewTaggedRelease@v0.0.2.14
    with:
      name: '"Our latest awesome release"'
      version: '"2.0.0"'
      verbose: 'verbose'
      github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Note

This example is used directly as part of a larger workflow The verbose option will output a little more detail in the logs

License

This project is licensed under the Gnu GPL-3.