fix: support repositories with immutable releases enabled#587
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GitHub's immutable releases feature (GA since Oct 2025) prevents modifying release artifacts after the release is created. This broke chart-releaser because it creates the release first, then uploads assets in a separate API call. This fix creates releases as drafts first, uploads assets, then publishes the release. Draft releases can be modified until they are published, which allows the asset upload to succeed. Fixes helm/chart-releaser-action#228 See: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-immutable-releases-are-now-generally-available/ Signed-off-by: Chris Burr <christopher.burr@cern.ch>
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GitHub's immutable releases feature (GA since Oct 2025) breaks the standard chart-releaser because it creates releases first, then uploads assets separately. With immutable releases, once the release is created, assets cannot be added. This workaround builds a patched chart-releaser from helm/chart-releaser#587 that creates releases as drafts first, uploads assets, then publishes the release. Relates to: helm/chart-releaser-action#228
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GitHub's immutable releases feature (GA since Oct 2025) breaks the standard chart-releaser because it creates releases first, then uploads assets separately. With immutable releases, once the release is created, assets cannot be added. This workaround builds a patched chart-releaser from helm/chart-releaser#587 that creates releases as drafts first, uploads assets, then publishes the release. Relates to: helm/chart-releaser-action#228
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* fix: workaround for immutable releases breaking chart-releaser GitHub's immutable releases feature (GA since Oct 2025) breaks the standard chart-releaser because it creates releases first, then uploads assets separately. With immutable releases, once the release is created, assets cannot be added. This workaround builds a patched chart-releaser from helm/chart-releaser#587 that creates releases as drafts first, uploads assets, then publishes the release. Relates to: helm/chart-releaser-action#228 * chore: bump chart version to 1.0.4
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Example deployment with this fix: https://github.com/DIRACGrid/diracx-charts/actions/runs/21141997362/job/60798114682 |
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GitHub's immutable releases feature (GA since Oct 2025) prevents modifying release artifacts after the release is created. This broke chart-releaser because it creates the release first, then uploads assets in a separate API call.
This fix creates releases as drafts first, uploads assets, then publishes the release. Draft releases can be modified until they are published, which allows the asset upload to succeed.
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