A simple and lightning-fast GitHub action to create releases for actions based on semantic version tags and move major, minor and latest tags accordingly.
Add simbo/action-semver-release-action@latest to your workflow.
Make sure your tags have a valid semantic versioning format and start with a
v.
If you create or push a version tag like v1.2.3, this action will move or
create the tags v1, v1.2 and latest to the same position and creates a
GitHub release.
The action is meant to be run on a
push:tags
event.
Unfortunately, you still have to publish your action release to the GitHub marketplace manually as there is no way to automate this at the moment.
name: Release
on:
push:
tags:
- 'v*'
jobs:
release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions: write-all
steps:
- name: 🛎 Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: 📦 Create Release
uses: simbo/action-semver-release-action@latest| Option | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
token |
no | ${{ github.token }} |
GitHub Repo Access Token (needs permission to write tags and releases) |
create-release |
no | 'true' |
whether to create a GitHub release |
release-name |
no | 'Release %TAG%' |
The name of the created release |
release-body |
no | '' |
The description of the created release |
All appearances of %TAG% in release-name and release-body will be replaced
with the version tag.
Use ./release.sh <major|minor|patch> which will update package.json and
create a git tag for the respective version.
A release workflow will pick up the tag when pushed to GitHub, create a release and move major, minor and latest tags accordingly.
To publish the release into the GitHub marketplace open releases and update the release for marketplace publishing.