ci: add option to provide release version on manual trigger

Author: soumyamahunt

.github/config/pre_changelog_hook.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+const semver = require('semver');
+const core = require('@actions/core');
+
+exports.preVersionGeneration = (version) => {
+  const { VERSION } = process.env;
+  core.info(`Computed version bump: ${version}`);
+
+  const newVersion = semver.valid(VERSION);
+  if (newVersion && semver.gte(newVersion, version)) {
+    version = newVersion;
+    core.info(`Using provided version: ${version}`);
+  }
+  return version;
+}
+
+exports.preTagGeneration = (tag) => { }

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ on:
         description: Create release
         required: false
         type: boolean
+      version:
+        description: New version to release
+        required: false
+        type: string
 
 env:
   RUBY_VER: 2.7
@@ -185,6 +189,9 @@ jobs:
         fallback-version: '1.0.0'
         config-file-path: '.github/config/config.js'
         pre-commit: '.github/config/pre_commit_hook.js'
+        pre-changelog-generation: '.github/config/pre_changelog_hook.js'
+      env:
+        VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
 
     - name: Build package products and documentation
       if: steps.conventional_changelog.outputs.skipped == 'false'

package-lock.json

@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
     "archiver": "^5.3.1",
     "conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits": "^4.6.3",
     "open": "^8.4.0",
-    "plist": "^3.0.5"
+    "plist": "^3.0.5",
+    "semver": "^7.3.7"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "build": "Scripts/build.js",
@@ -32,4 +33,4 @@
     "build-doc": "Scripts/build-doc.js",
     "serve-doc": "Scripts/serve-doc.js"
   }
-}
+}