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v7.0.0
v7 upgrades the action to Node 24 and introduces breaking changes to version calculation and branch handling. Review the migration guide before upgrading from v6.
- Run on Node 24 and ship a self-contained
dist/bundle with both supported commit presets, templates, dependencies, and license notices. Refresh the lockfile, remove the old Octokit dependency chain, and retain proxy support.- Align analysis and changelogs on Conventional Commits, including
feat!. Angular remains selectable.- Match whole branch names; an empty prerelease list now means no prerelease branches. Never publish from PR events or recursively process tag events. Preview versions include a commit SHA suffix.
- Fetch all tags and all compare-commit pages. Explicitly restricted tag fetching fails when results might be incomplete. Read initial commit history instead of comparing against a fabricated HEAD baseline.
- Skip version creation when no eligible commits remain, unless custom or forced versioning was explicitly requested.
- Keep stable release baselines separate from unrelated prereleases; match prerelease identifiers exactly, honor the first prerelease default, increment existing RCs, and allow higher-level changes to advance the RC base.
- Add path/scope/ignore filters, opt-in squash-bullet parsing, tag-stream filtering, explicit bump/version inputs, local/moving/rolling tags, repository/ref/directory overrides, and release metadata outputs.
- Retry transient API reads and fall back to complete local Git history for compare failures. No history means no guessed release. Optional soft failure clears release outputs.
Migration
See Migrating from v6 to v7 for changed defaults, workflow examples, prerelease behavior, and a dry-run validation procedure.
New inputs are opt-in unless explicitly described above and require v7. See the README for the full input contract.