rust-version-upgrade

Rust Version Upgrade Action

This GitHub Action automatically calculates the next version number for your Rust project based on git tags and updates the version inline in Cargo.toml and writes it to a VERSION file.

Features

• 🚀 Automatically bumps major, minor, or patch version
• 🏷️ Uses git tags to determine the current version
• 📝 Updates Cargo.toml inline
• 🗂️ Writes the new version to a VERSION file
• 🔧 Outputs the new version for use in subsequent workflow steps

Usage

Add this step to your workflow:

- name: Rust Version Upgrade
  id: rust_version
  uses: eveenendaal/github-actions/actions/rust-version-upgrade@master
  with:
    tag-prefix: 'v'      # Optional, default: 'v'
    bump: 'minor'        # Optional, one of: major, minor, patch (default: minor)

- name: Show new version
  run: echo "New version is ${{ steps.rust_version.outputs.version }}"

Inputs

Input	Description	Required	Default
tag-prefix	Prefix for version tags (e.g., v)	No	v
bump	Which part to bump: major, minor, or patch	No	minor

Outputs

Output	Description
version	The new version number set in Cargo.toml and VERSION

Example

If your latest tag is v1.2.3 and you set bump: minor, the new version will be 1.3.0, Cargo.toml will be updated, and the same version will be written to the VERSION file.

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MIT License