Merge pull request #178 from maxmind/greg/eng-1733

Improve release script reliability (ENG-1733)

Author: horgh

dev-bin/release.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,37 @@
 
 set -eu -o pipefail
 
+# Pre-flight checks - verify all required tools are available and configured
+# before making any changes to the repository
+
+check_command() {
+    if ! command -v "$1" &>/dev/null; then
+        echo "Error: $1 is not installed or not in PATH"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# Verify gh CLI is authenticated
+if ! gh auth status &>/dev/null; then
+    echo "Error: gh CLI is not authenticated. Run 'gh auth login' first."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Verify we can access this repository via gh
+if ! gh repo view --json name &>/dev/null; then
+    echo "Error: Cannot access repository via gh. Check your authentication and repository access."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Verify git can connect to the remote (catches SSH key issues, etc.)
+if ! git ls-remote origin &>/dev/null; then
+    echo "Error: Cannot connect to git remote. Check your git credentials/SSH keys."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+check_command perl
+check_command rake
+
 # Check that we're not on the main branch
 current_branch=$(git branch --show-current)
 if [ "$current_branch" = "main" ]; then
@@ -23,20 +54,20 @@ fi
 changelog=$(cat CHANGELOG.md)
 
 regex='
-## v([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(.[a-z0-9]+)?) \(([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})\)
+## v([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9.]+)?) \(([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})\)
 
 ((.|
 )*)
 '
 
 if [[ ! $changelog =~ $regex ]]; then
-      echo "Could not find date line in change log!"
-      exit 1
+    echo "Could not find date line in change log!"
+    exit 1
 fi
 
 version="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
 date="${BASH_REMATCH[3]}"
-notes="$(echo "${BASH_REMATCH[4]}" | sed -n -E '/^## v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/,$!p')"
+notes="$(echo "${BASH_REMATCH[4]}" | sed -n -E '/^## v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9.]+)?/,$!p')"
 
 echo "$notes"
 if [[ "$date" != "$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")" ]]; then
@@ -63,7 +94,7 @@ git diff
 echo $'\nRelease notes:'
 echo "$notes"
 
-read -e -p "Commit changes and push to origin? " should_push
+read -r -e -p "Commit changes and push to origin? " should_push
 
 if [ "$should_push" != "y" ]; then
     echo "Aborting"