A practical walkthrough for automating release notes using GitHub Actions and semantic versioning. The workflow automatically creates a Draft Release whenever a PR is merged to main, parsing PR titles to determine version bumps (major/minor/patch). A separate manually-triggered workflow publishes the release, updates package.json, creates a release branch, and notifies the team via Slack using the official GitHub-Slack integration. Full YAML code is provided for both workflows, along with a mention of the open-source release-drafter alternative.
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Semantic versioning (aka SemVer) 🔗Magic Github Action 🔗Pressing the button 🔗Getting Notified 🔗Conclusion and Alternatives 🔗Sort: