v1.2.0

v1.2.0

This release provides significant improvements to the action's reliability and stability by resolving critical bugs that prevented it from running correctly.

What's Changed

• Fix(CI): Resolve variable handling bug. Corrects a series of issues where the action failed to pass outputs between steps due to a mix of typos and a misunderstanding of how GitHub Actions converts hyphens to underscores in environment variables. The action now correctly passes outputs to subsequent steps.
• Fix(CI): Correct YAML syntax error. Resolves a fundamental bug where a misplaced value property in the workflow's YAML caused the entire workflow to fail on parsing.
• Feat(Outputs): Ensure outputs are consistently populated. The action will now reliably provide the issue-number and issue-url outputs, which were previously empty under certain conditions.

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0

📦 Release: v1.1.0 — Output Propagation & Matrix Expansion

📦 Release: v1.1.0 — Output Propagation & Matrix Expansion

This release introduces modular output verification, improved duplicate handling, and expanded CI matrix coverage.

✨ Highlights

• ✅ Output Propagation Fix
  Ensures issue-url and issue-number are always set—even when a duplicate issue is detected. Downstream workflows now receive consistent outputs via a dedicated verify-issue step.

• 🧠 Modular Architecture
  Introduced verify-issue as the single source of truth for outputs, decoupling logic from detection and creation steps.

• 🧪 Expanded Matrix Testing
  Added five distinct test cases to validate fresh creation, duplicate reuse, fallback handling, label bootstrapping, and assignee propagation.

• 🛡️ Permissions Clarified
  Documented required workflow permissions (issues: write, contents: write) for seamless GitHub CLI execution.

• 📝 README Overhaul
  Updated usage examples, input/output tables, cleanup workflow, and added CI badges for traceability.

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🔧 Internal Improvements

• Composite action now gracefully skips create-issue while still emitting outputs
• Label creation logic validated across clean-slate scenarios
• CI logs enhanced with expressive diagnostics and traceable output flow

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This version makes the action more resilient, expressive, and reviewer-friendly—ready for modular CI setups and contributor onboarding.

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Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.1.0

Patch: CI Resilience and Label Logic Fixes

What's Changed:

• Fixed silent failures caused by grep + pipefail
• Improved label existence check using JSON output
• Trimmed and sanitized label input to prevent creation errors
• Isolated label creation to avoid premature CI exits
• Added trace logging for GITHUB_REPOSITORY and CLI version
• Ensured fallback behavior for empty or malformed labels

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Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

v1.0.0

🚀 Release: v1.0.0 — Create Issue Action

Initial release of the Create Issue composite GitHub Action, designed for robust, reviewer-friendly automation of issue creation.

✨ Features

• Duplicate Detection
  Prevents redundant issues by checking for existing open issues with matching titles.

• Fallback Handling
  Automatically applies fallback title and body if inputs are empty or undefined.

• Label Management
  Ensures all specified labels exist before issue creation, including auto-creation of created-by:ci.

• Assignee Support
  Accepts multiple assignees via comma-separated input.

• Safe Output Formatting
  Outputs issue URL and number using multiline syntax to avoid formatting errors in GitHub Actions.

• CI-Friendly Cleanup
  Compatible with automated cleanup workflows that close test issues based on label filtering.

🧪 Testing

Includes matrix-based test workflow to validate:

• Fresh issue creation
• Duplicate detection
• Fallback behavior
• Label and assignee parsing

🧹 Cleanup

Supports post-test cleanup via label-based filtering (created-by:ci), ensuring test artifacts don’t clutter the repository.