Selecting mainline commits alone drops a BREAKING CHANGE footer that lives on
a branch commit rather than in the PR description: the merge inherits neither.
Measured against real history, v1.60.0..HEAD lost 2 of 2 notes.
Fold each merge's branch messages into its body before extraction, so the
entry list stays one-per-PR while the footer scan sees the whole PR. Both
ranges checked now report zero loss versus the previous selection.
Release notes were assembled from every commit since the scope's tag with
--no-merges. Two things were wrong with that:
- No path filter, so a scope inherited every other lane's work. The angular
v0.5.0 notes drew from 159 commits, 4 of which were angular.
- --no-merges is backwards for this repo. PRs land as merge commits, so the
merge is the unit of change and the only commit carrying the (#1234)
reference; --no-merges dropped every PR boundary and kept the intermediate
branch commits instead.
Walk --first-parent over the scope's package directories, drop commits no
consumer would read about (test/ci/style, chore except chore(deps), and the
release commit itself), and parse the PR number off the subject.
For angular v0.5.0 this turns 159 entries into the 4 real PRs.
Replace changesets with a simple, stateless release system:
Stable release (PR-gated):
Actions → "create release PR" → pick patch/minor/major → CI runs →
merge → publishes to npm, creates git tag + GitHub Release
Prerelease (ad-hoc):
Actions → "publish / prerelease" → publishes current version with
-canary.<suffix|timestamp> to npm under "canary" tag
Key features:
- All 12 core @copilotkit/* packages share a single version
- AI-generated release notes via Anthropic API
- Notion draft for team editing before merge
- Notion link commented on the release PR
- Guards: concurrent release PR check, version > npm check, clean
semver check, canary-only prerelease tag
- release/publish/v* branch pattern (hard to accidentally match)
- TypeScript throughout (tsx runner)
- release.config.json with versionedTogether/versionedIndependently
Benjamin Taylor