Utilization of python-semantic-release for versioning and publishing releases

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Copyright lowRISC contributors (OpenTitan project).
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, see LICENSE for details.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+name: DVSim Release
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Repository checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Install python-semantic-release package
+        run: python3 -m pip install python-semantic-release
+
+      - name: Versioning and Publishing the release
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          semantic-release version --no-changelog
+          semantic-release publish

pyproject.toml

@@ -104,3 +104,19 @@ ignore = [
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
 addopts = "--cov=dvsim --cov-report term-missing"
 norecursedirs = ["*.egg", ".*", "_darcs", "build", "dist", "venv", "scratch", "doc"]
+
+[tool.semantic_release]
+commit_parser = "conventional"
+version_toml = ["pyproject.toml:project.version"]
+commit_message = "Bump v{version}"
+
+[tool.semantic_release.commit_parser_options]
+minor_tags = ["feat"]
+patch_tags = ["fix", "perf", "refactor"]
+parse_squash_commits = true
+ignore_merge_commits = true
+
+[tool.semantic_release.branches.main]
+match = "master"
+prerelease_token = "rc"
+prerelease = false