bug: no link to MR or commit in generated changelog (GitLab, self-hosted)

[MisterTimn]

I notice that in our project the changelog gets generated without any links, while I think the link to related PRs should be included on every line?

Also, a breaking change is included in the release and the version was set correctly, however the Changelog doesn't show which change is actually breaking.

Our MR for the release: https://gitlab.ilabt.imec.be/obelisk/obelisk-core/-/merge_requests/53

I added the [BREAKING] denotion myself.

Question: editing the changelog in description of PR, does this have any effect? I want to do some manual formatting and editing before releasing. How best to handle this? Could not find relevant info on docs.

Attached the logs of the successful rp run

$ rp run \ # collapsed multi-line command
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2025-07-07T12:37:20Z INF checking for pending releases method=runCreatePendingReleases
2025-07-07T12:37:20Z INF No pending releases found method=runCreatePendingReleases
2025-07-07T12:37:20Z DBG attempting runReconcileReleasePR method=runReconcileReleasePRWithRetries totalAttempts=3 attempt=1
2025-07-07T12:37:20Z DBG listing all tags in gitlab repository forge=gitlab
2025-07-07T12:37:20Z INF found latest tag method=runReconcileReleasePR tag.hash=a6f7cd3725dae00c976474d5fe9dfe538e05695b tag.name=1.0.0
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2025-07-07T12:37:29Z INF Found releasable commits tag.hash=a6f7cd3725dae00c976474d5fe9dfe538e05695b tag.name=1.0.0 length=57
2025-07-07T12:37:29Z WRN failed to parse message of commit, skipping commit.hash=0097f4fa9053db1dbd35bb8347cd2af69fb00df0 err="expecting colon (':') character, got '/' character: col=04"
2025-07-07T12:37:29Z INF Analyzed commits tag.hash=a6f7cd3725dae00c976474d5fe9dfe538e05695b tag.name=1.0.0 length=10
2025-07-07T12:37:29Z INF next version method=runReconcileReleasePR version=v2.0.0
2025-07-07T12:37:29Z DBG cloning repository method=runReconcileReleasePR clone.url=https://gitlab.ilabt.imec.be/obelisk/obelisk-core.git
2025-07-07T12:37:33Z DBG getting commit author from current token user forge=gitlab
2025-07-07T12:37:33Z INF created release commit method=runReconcileReleasePR commit.hash=963a7ae84e49d1716287fe657a2a4162a311b61e commit.message="chore(main): release v2.0.0" commit.author="releaser-pleaser <project_5480_bot_14a6bc2d7237420e842191f9284b45f1@noreply.gitlab.ilabt.imec.be>"
2025-07-07T12:37:33Z DBG pushing branch method=runReconcileReleasePR branch.name=releaser-pleaser--branches--main refspec=+refs/heads/releaser-pleaser--branches--main:refs/heads/releaser-pleaser--branches--main
2025-07-07T12:37:35Z INF pushed branch method=runReconcileReleasePR commit.hash=963a7ae84e49d1716287fe657a2a4162a311b61e branch.name=releaser-pleaser--branches--main
2025-07-07T12:37:36Z INF opened pull request method=runReconcileReleasePR pr.title="chore(main): release v2.0.0" pr.id=53 pr.url=https://gitlab.ilabt.imec.be/obelisk/obelisk-core/-/merge_requests/53

[apricote]

If the MR reference is missing it indicates that releaser-pleaser could not find the MR that the commit comes from. I do not think that there are any good logs to help debug this at the moment. You could query the API yourself and post the response here: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/commits/#list-merge-requests-associated-with-a-commit

For the breaking changes I added it to the template in #234

[apricote]

If the MR reference is missing it indicates that releaser-pleaser could not find the MR that the commit comes from.

I may have hallucinated this (not only AI is good at that...). The changelog for this project actually contains the references because they are part of the commit title after squashing the changes. There is no automation that adds the MR or commit to the changelog entries.