Semver Conventional Commits - Github Action

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This GitHub Action automatically determinate the next release version to use based on all the Conventional Commits since the latest tag.

• Example Workflow
• Inputs
• Outputs

Works great alongside the Changelog from Conventional Commits action!

Example workflow

name: Deploy

on:
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout Code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Get Next Version
        id: semver
        uses: ietf-tools/semver-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ github.token }}
          branch: main

      - name: Create Release
        uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1.12.0
        with:
          allowUpdates: true
          draft: false
          makeLatest: true
          name: ${{ steps.semver.outputs.next }}
          body: Changelog Contents
          token: ${{ github.token }}

Inputs

Field	Description	Required	Default
token	Your GitHub token. (e.g. ${{ github.token }})	✅
branch	The branch to use when fetching list of commits to compare against. (e.g. main)	❌	main
majorList	Comma separated commit prefixes, used to bump Major version. A BREAKING CHANGE note in a commit message will still cause a major bump.	❌
minorList	Comma separated commit prefixes, used to bump Minor version.	❌	feat, feature
patchList	Comma separated commit prefixes, used to bump Patch version.	❌	fix, bugfix, perf, refactor, test, tests
patchAll	If set to true, will ignore patchList and always count commits as a Patch.	❌	false
skipInvalidTags	If set to true, will skip tags that are not valid semver until it finds a proper one (up to maxTagsFetch from latest).	❌	false
noVersionBumpBehavior	Whether to exit with an error (default), a warning, silently, the current version or force bump using patch when none of the commits result in a version bump. (Possible values: error, warn, current, patch or silent)	❌	error
noNewCommitBehavior	Whether to exit with an error (default), a warning, the current version or silently when there are no new commits since the latest tag. (Possible values: error, warn, current or silent)	❌	error
prefix	A prefix that will be striped when parsing tags (e.g. foobar/). Any other prefix will be ignored. Useful for monorepos. The prefix will be added back to the output values.	❌
additionalCommits	A list of additional commit messages to parse in order to calculate semver.	❌
fromTag	Override the tag to use when comparing against the branch in order to fetch the list of commits.	❌
maxTagsToFetch	Maximum number of tags to fetch from latest.	❌	10

Outputs

Field	Description	Example Value
current	Current version number / latest tag.	v1.1.9
next	Next version number in format v0.0.0	v1.2.0
nextStrict	Next version number without the v prefix.	1.2.0
nextMajor	Next version major number in format v0	v1
nextMajorStrict	Next version major number only.	1
bump	Next version behavior: major, major, major or none.	minor

⚠️ Important ⚠️

You must already have an existing tag in your repository. The job will exit with an error if it can't find the latest tag to compare against!