Release action is no longer maintained

[rickstaa]

I just noticed that the create-release action is no longer being maintained by the Github team. I did not run into errors yet on the Reviewdog actions I support, other than the action not automatically being released to the marketplace (see actions/create-release#99). However, maybe let's switch to a new maintained branch to be sure.

The Github team gives the following alternatives:

Maintained Actions:

• elgohr/Github-Release-Action
• marvinpinto/action-automatic-releases
• softprops/action-gh-release
• ncipollo/release-action

@review-dog does anybody have a preference between these actions or is aware of a better action?

[trim21]

maybe just use github cli gh https://github.com/cli/cli . it's installed in all github actions already.

[rickstaa]

@trim21 ah, I was not aware of that. Looks like a good solution. Thanks for the update!

[rickstaa]

I updated the actions of which I am a maintainer. I used the following see https://github.com/reviewdog/action-black/blob/0d6daa02d36c2b9669bd71dd460d1e87df8ca097/.github/workflows/release.yml#L41-L46 for an example. This solution still has the problem that the release is not published to the marketplace since the GitHub API doesn't allow this yet (see this feature reques.

The following actions still need to be updated by their action maintainers:

• ci: replace 'create-release action' with gh cli action-black#49
• ci: replace 'create-release action' with gh cli action-flake8#33
• ci: replace 'create-release action' with gh cli action-remark-lint#64
• ci: replace 'create-release action' with gh cli action-template#34
• ci: replace 'create-release action' with gh cli action-composite-template#10
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-pytest
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-ansiblelint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-golangci-lint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-cpplint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-detect-secrets
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-misspell
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-brakeman
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-suggester
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-tflint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-hadolint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-rubocop
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-shellcheck
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-setup
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-depup
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-staticcheck
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-eslint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-tfsec
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-actionlint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-markdownlint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-reek
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-pyflakes
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-vint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-languagetool
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-shfmt
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-nimlint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-eclint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-coffeelint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-stylelint
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-alex
• https://github.com/reviewdog/action-yamllint

[shogo82148]

done! #1043 (comment)

[rickstaa]

done! #1043 (comment)

Amazing thanks!