fix: remove dependency for release notes

Makefile

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/release.json:
 #   We're using this to remove CLIv2 changes in v1's changelogs.
 #   :(exclude) syntax: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitglossary.html#Documentation/gitglossary.txt-exclude
 # Release notes uses version from package.json so we need to prepack beforehand.
-$(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/RELEASE_NOTES.md: prepack | $(BINARY_RELEASES_FOLDER_TS_CLI)
+$(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/RELEASE_NOTES.md:
 	npx conventional-changelog-cli -l -r 1 -n ./release-scripts/conventional-changelog-cli-config.js > $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/RELEASE_NOTES.md
 
 $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/fips/RELEASE_NOTES.md: $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/RELEASE_NOTES.md $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/fips

release-scripts/prepare-release.sh

@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@ if [ -f binary-releases/RELEASE_NOTES.md ]; then
 fi
 
 # Generate the release notes baseline from the commits
-make binary-releases/RELEASE_NOTES.md clean-package-files format
+make binary-releases/RELEASE_NOTES.md format
 
 # if the release notes are generated locally, the version contains something like X.Y.Z-dev.hash
 # the replacement below ensures that the version in the RELEASE_NOTES.md is X.Y.Z
-sed -i "version" -e "s/$(cat binary-releases/version)/$(npx semver --coerce $(cat binary-releases/version))/g" binary-releases/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+VERSION_TO_REPLACE=$(npm pkg get version | tr -d '"')
+VERSION_TO_REPLACE_WITH=$(npx semver --coerce $(cat binary-releases/version))
+sed -i "version" -e "s/$VERSION_TO_REPLACE/$VERSION_TO_REPLACE_WITH/g" binary-releases/RELEASE_NOTES.md
 
 # Commit and push the release notes
 git add -f binary-releases/RELEASE_NOTES.md