RangeError: Invalid time value

[XavierJ96]

Current behavior

I am experiencing problems when I attempt to execute my workflow to create the release.

release.yml

name: Release

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  release:
    permissions:
      contents: write
      issues: write
      pull-requests: write
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v2
        with:
          node-version: '21.1.0'
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npx semantic-release
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}

Expected behavior

To work and create the release.

semantic-release version

23.0.8

CI environment

Github Actions

Plugins used

 "@semantic-release/changelog": "^6.0.3",
 "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer": "^12.0.0",
 "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator": "^13.0.0"
 "@semantic-release/git": "^10.0.1",
 "@semantic-release/github": "^10.0.3",
 "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits": "^8.0.0",
 "semantic-release": "^23.0.8"

semantic-release configuration

const config = {
  branches: ["main"],
  plugins: [
    [
      "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
      {
        preset: "angular",
        releaseRules: [
          {
            breaking: true,
            release: "major",
          },
          {
            type: "feat",
            release: "minor",
          },
          {
            type: "fix",
            release: "patch",
          },
          {
            type: "docs",
            scope: "README",
            release: "patch",
          },
          {
            type: "chore",
            release: "patch",
          },
        ],
        parserOpts: {
          noteKeywords: ["BREAKING CHANGE", "BREAKING CHANGES", "BREAKING"],
        },
      },
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
      {
        preset: "conventionalcommits",
        presetConfig: {
          types: [
            { type: "feat", section: "Features", hidden: false },
            { type: "fix", section: "Bug Fixes", hidden: false },
            { type: "docs", section: "Miscellaneous Chores", hidden: false },
            { type: "chore", section: "Miscellaneous Chores", hidden: false },
          ],
        },
        parserOpts: {
          noteKeywords: ["BREAKING CHANGE", "BREAKING CHANGES", "BREAKING"],
        },
      },
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/changelog",
      {
        changelogFile: "CHANGELOG.md",
      },
    ],
    [
      "@semantic-release/git",
      {
        assets: ["package.json", "CHANGELOG.md"],
      },
    ],
    "@semantic-release/github",
  ],
};

module.exports = config;

CI logs

chore: update config
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The commit should not trigger a release
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: chore: update config
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The release type for the commit is patch
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analysis of 6 commits complete: patch release
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  The next release version is 1.0.21
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] › ✘  Failed step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[10:11:42 AM] [semantic-release] › ✘  An error occurred while running semantic-release: RangeError: Invalid time value
    at committerDate (/home/runner/work/CI-CD-Test/CI-CD-Test/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/index.js:80:30)
    at /home/runner/work/CI-CD-Test/CI-CD-Test/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/lib/util.js:202:17
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at processCommit (/home/runner/work/CI-CD-Test/CI-CD-Test/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/lib/util.js:198:31)
    at /home/runner/work/CI-CD-Test/CI-CD-Test/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/index.js:123:32 {
  pluginName: '@semantic-release/release-notes-generator'
}
RangeError: Invalid time value
    at committerDate (/home/runner/work/CI-CD-Test/CI-CD-Test/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/index.js:80:30)
    at /home/runner/work/CI-CD-Test/CI-CD-Test/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/lib/util.js:202:17
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at processCommit (/home/runner/work/CI-CD-Test/CI-CD-Test/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/lib/util.js:198:31)
    at /home/runner/work/CI-CD-Test/CI-CD-Test/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/index.js:123:32 {
  pluginName: '@semantic-release/release-notes-generator'
}
Error: Process completed with exit code [1](https://github.com/XavierJ96/CI-CD-Test/actions/runs/8983555274/job/24673577456#step:10:1).

[sushant-dev01]

Saw same problem today

[Shahroz16]

Facing the same issue.

[XavierJ96]

@Shahroz16 , @sushant-dev01 ,

I've just noticed that there is another issue open on a different repository @Here

[XavierJ96]

Looks like semantic-release uses an old version of conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits.

For now, the workaround for me was installing the previous version of conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits.

 npm install --save-dev conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits@7.0.2     

[sushant-dev01]

Hey semantic-release team, could you let us know when you plan to address it? Thanks!

[travi]

The new versions of the conventional changelog plugins were released with breaking changes only days ago. We will upgrade when we have time, but we have not introduced the problems you are seeing by not updating.

We recommend you always pin at least to the major version of the packages you are installing alongside semantic-release. The only reason you are needing to "downgrade" is because you are installing latest, which is resulting in you updating to the latest major version immediately (before we have updated to account for the breaking changes).

[travi]

Closing in favor of semantic-release/release-notes-generator#633