changelog-updater Action.

A GitHub Action to automatically update a "Keep a Changelog" CHANGELOG with the latest release notes.

The Action …

• automatically updates the Unreleased-heading to point to the compare view between the latest version and HEAD.
• adds a new second level heading for the new release.
• pastes your release notes in the appropriate place in CHANGELOG.md.

Don't want to use GitHub Actions? Checkout the changelog-updater CLI that powers this Action.

Usage

The Action is best used in a Workflow that listens to the release-event and the type released. This way, the name and body of your release will be added to the CHANGELOG.

The following is an example Workflow ready to be used.

The Workflow checks out the default main-branch of your repository, updates the ./CHANGELOG.md-file with the name and the contents of the just released release and commits the changes back to your repository using git-auto-commit.

# .github/workflows/update-changelog.yaml
name: "Update Changelog"

on:
  release:
    types: [released]

jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: main

      - name: Update Changelog
        uses: stefanzweifel/changelog-updater-action@v1
        with:
          latest-version: ${{ github.event.release.name }}
          release-notes: ${{ github.event.release.body }}

      - name: Commit updated CHANGELOG
        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
        with:
          branch: main
          commit_message: Update CHANGELOG
          file_pattern: CHANGELOG.md

To generate the release notes automatically for you, I can recommend using the release-drafter Action.

Inputs

Checkout action.yml for a full list of supported inputs.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

We also provide major version tags to make it easier to always use the latest release of a major version. For example you can use stefanzweifel/changelog-updater-action@v1 to always use the latest release of the current major version. (More information about this here.)

Credits

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.