chore(ci): improve release notes generation

Makefile

@@ -94,11 +94,7 @@ $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/release.json:
 #   :(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)
-	npx conventional-changelog-cli -p angular -l -r 1 > $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/RELEASE_NOTES.md
-
-	# if the releease notes are generated locally, the version contains something like X.Y.Z-dev.hash
-	# the replacement below ensures that the version in the RELEASE_NOTES.md is X.Y.Z
-	sed -i -e "s/$(shell cat $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/version)/$(shell npx semver --coerce $(shell cat $(BINARY_OUTPUT_FOLDER)/version))/g" $(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
 
 # Generates a shasum of a target with the same name.
 # See "Automatic Variables" in GNU Make docs (linked at the top)

check-dependencies.config.ts

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export const config: Options = {
     'ts-node', // used for various scripts to avoid separate compile step
     'jest-junit', // used for CI test reporting
     '@types/node', // node types used for alerts
+    'conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits', // used to configure generating release notes
   ],
   ignoreDirs: ['node_modules', 'dist', 'fixtures', 'test-output'],
 };

release-scripts/conventional-changelog-cli-config.js

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+'use strict';
+const config = require('conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits');
+
+const headerExtension = `
+The Snyk CLI is being deployed to different deployment channels, users can select the stability level according to their needs. For details please see [this documentation](https://docs.snyk.io/snyk-cli/releases-and-channels-for-the-snyk-cli)`;
+
+module.exports = config({}).then((preset) => {
+  preset.conventionalChangelog.writerOpts.headerPartial += headerExtension;
+  return preset;
+});

release-scripts/prepare-release.sh

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ fi
 # Generate the release notes baseline from the commits
 make binary-releases/RELEASE_NOTES.md clean-package-files 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
+
 # Commit and push the release notes
 git add -f binary-releases/RELEASE_NOTES.md
 git commit -m "docs: update release notes"