deps: not triggering a release now?

[cujarrett]

What

I'm seeing deps: foo not trigger a release. I thought it was something on my end so I tried a second PR and saw the same behavior.

Example

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#!/bin/bash -eo pipefail
npx semantic-release --branch $CIRCLE_BRANCH --dry-run=false
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Running semantic-release version 17.4.7
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/changelog"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/git"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/github"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "analyzeCommits" from "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "analyzeCommits" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyRelease" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "generateNotes" from "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "generateNotes" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "prepare" from "@semantic-release/changelog"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "prepare" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "prepare" from "@semantic-release/git"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "prepare" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "publish" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "publish" from "@semantic-release/github"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "publish" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "addChannel" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "addChannel" from "@semantic-release/github"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "addChannel" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "success" from "@semantic-release/github"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "success" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "fail" from "@semantic-release/github"
[12:02:06 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "fail" from "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Run automated release from branch main on repository https://[secure]@github.com/cujarrett/markdown-tables.git
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Allowed to push to the Git repository
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/npm"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/npm] › ℹ  Verify authentication for registry https://registry.npmjs.org/
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/npm] › ℹ  Reading npm config from /home/circleci/project/.npmrc
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/npm] › ℹ  Wrote NPM_TOKEN to /tmp/REDACTED/.npmrc
cujarrett
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/npm"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/git"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/git"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/github] › ℹ  Verify GitHub authentication
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Found git tag v2.9.5 associated with version 2.9.5 on branch main
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Found 2 commits since last release
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: deps: updates dependencies

* fix: updates dependencies
@commitlint/cli           ~12.0.1  →  ~12.1.1
@semantic-release/github   ~7.2.0  →   ~7.2.3
@semantic-release/npm      ~7.1.0  →   ~7.1.3
commitizen                 ~4.2.3  →   ~4.2.4
eslint                    ~7.23.0  →  ~7.25.0

* deps: updates dependencies
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: deps(deps-dev): bump semantic-release from 17.4.4 to 17.4.7 (#68)

Bumps [semantic-release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release) from 17.4.4 to 17.4.7.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release/releases)
- [Commits](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release/compare/v17.4.4...v17.4.7)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: semantic-release
  dependency-type: direct:development
  update-type: version-update:semver-patch
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>

Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analysis of 2 commits complete: no release
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/exec"
[12:02:07 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  There are no relevant changes, so no new version is released.

[travi]

have you configured semantic-release to use a different preset than the default? the angular preset, which is the default preset used by semantic-release, does not recognize deps as a valid commit type

[khan0amh]

In my case the following commit also had the same result:

fix(deps): update dependency class-transformer to v0.5.0

Following logs were generated

fix(deps): update dependency class-transformer to v0.5.0
See merge request [repo name]!940
[3:21:45 PM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[3:21:45 PM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: fix(deps): update dependency class-transformer to v0.5.0
[3:21:45 PM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The release type for the commit is patch
[3:21:45 PM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: Merge branch 'renovate/class-validator-0.x' into 'develop'