feat: Add new changelog generation task and workflow.

.github/workflows/release.lib.yaml

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ jobs:
           fetch-depth: 0
           submodules: recursive
 
+      - name: test-action
+        run: cd hack/common; git status
       - name: Install Task
         uses: arduino/setup-task@v2
         with:
@@ -85,36 +87,8 @@ jobs:
           done
 
       - name: Build Changelog
-        id: github_release
-        uses: mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action@5fb6e51e44d4aea73f66549f425aa3ed5008109e # v5
-        with:
-          mode: "PR"
-          configurationJson: |
-            {
-              "template": "#{{CHANGELOG}}",
-              "pr_template": "- #{{TITLE}}: ##{{NUMBER}}",
-              "categories": [
-                {
-                    "title": "## Feature",
-                    "labels": ["feat", "feature"]
-                },
-                {
-                    "title": "## Fix",
-                    "labels": ["fix", "bug"]
-                },
-                {
-                    "title": "## Other",
-                    "labels": []
-                }
-              ],
-              "label_extractor": [
-                {
-                  "pattern": "^(build|chore|ci|docs|feat|fix|perf|refactor|revert|style|test){1}(\\([\\w\\-\\.]+\\))?(!)?: ([\\w ])+([\\s\\S]*)",
-                  "on_property": "title",
-                  "target": "$1"
-                }
-              ]
-            }
+        id: github_release  
+        run: task r:generate-changelog
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
@@ -124,7 +98,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           tag_name: ${{ env.version }}
           name: Release ${{ env.version }}
-          body: ${{steps.github_release.outputs.changelog}}
+          body: CHANGELOG.md
           draft: true
           prerelease: false
         env:

generate-changelog.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Ensure gh CLI available
+if ! command -v gh &> /dev/null; then
+  echo "gh CLI is required but not installed." >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+cd $(dirname "$0")/../../
+
+LATEST_RELEASE_TAG=$(gh release list --json tagName,isLatest --jq '.[] | select(.isLatest)|.tagName')
+if [[ -e $LATEST_RELEASE_TAG ]]; then # first release?
+  LATEST_RELEASE_TAG=$(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD) # first commit in the branch.
+fi
+
+PR_COMMITS=$(git log "$LATEST_RELEASE_TAG"..HEAD --oneline --pretty=format:"%s" main | grep -oE "#[0-9]+" | tr -d '#' | sort -u)
+
+CHANGELOG_FILE=./CHANGELOG.md
+# File header Header
+echo "# Changes included in $VERSION:" > "$CHANGELOG_FILE"
+echo "" >> "$CHANGELOG_FILE"
+
+declare -A SECTIONS
+SECTIONS=(
+  [feat]="### 🚀 Features"
+  [fix]="### 🐛 Fixes"
+  [chore]="### 🔧 Chores"
+  [docs]="### 📚 Documentation"
+  [refactor]="### 🔨 Refactoring"
+  [test]="### ✅ Tests"
+  [perf]="### ⚡ Performance"
+  [ci]="### 🔁 CI"
+)
+
+# Prepare section buffers
+declare -A PR_ENTRIES
+for key in "${!SECTIONS[@]}"; do
+  PR_ENTRIES[$key]=""
+done
+
+for PR_NUMBER in $PR_COMMITS; do
+  PR_JSON=$(gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --json number,title,body,url,author)
+
+  IS_BOT=$(echo "$PR_JSON" | jq -r '.author.is_bot')
+  if [[ "$IS_BOT" == "true" ]]; then
+    continue
+  fi
+
+  TITLE=$(echo "$PR_JSON" | jq -r '.title')
+  URL=$(echo "$PR_JSON" | jq -r '.url')
+  BODY=$(echo "$PR_JSON" | jq -r '.body')
+
+  # Determine type from conventional commit (assumes title like "type(scope): message" or "type: message")
+  TYPE=$(echo "$TITLE" | grep -oE '^[a-z]+' || echo "feat")
+  CLEAN_TITLE=$(echo "$TITLE" | sed -E 's/^[a-z]+(\([^)]+\))?(!)?:[[:space:]]+//')
+
+  # Extract release note block, we only extract the "user" related notes.
+  RELEASE_NOTE=$(echo "$BODY" | awk '/^```[[:space:]]*(breaking|feature|bugfix|doc|other)[[:space:]]+user[[:space:]]*$/ {flag=1; next} /^```[[:space:]]*$/ {flag=0} flag' || true)
+
+  # Format entry
+  ENTRY="- $CLEAN_TITLE [#${PR_NUMBER}](${URL})"
+  if [[ -n "$RELEASE_NOTE"  || "$RELEASE_NOTE" != "NONE" ]]; then
+    ENTRY+=": $RELEASE_NOTE"
+  else
+    ENTRY+="."
+  fi
+  ENTRY+="\n"
+
+  # Append to appropriate section
+  if [[ -n "${PR_ENTRIES[$TYPE]+x}" ]]; then
+    PR_ENTRIES[$TYPE]+="$ENTRY"
+  else
+    PR_ENTRIES[chore]+="$ENTRY"
+  fi
+done
+
+# Output sections
+for key in "${!SECTIONS[@]}"; do
+  if [[ -n "${PR_ENTRIES[$key]}" ]]; then
+    echo "${SECTIONS[$key]}" >> "$CHANGELOG_FILE"
+    echo -e "${PR_ENTRIES[$key]}" >> "$CHANGELOG_FILE"
+    echo "" >> "$CHANGELOG_FILE"
+  fi
+done
+
+cat "$CHANGELOG_FILE"

tasks_rls.yaml

@@ -139,3 +139,13 @@ tasks:
     desc: "List all nested modules in the project."
     cmds:
       - cmd: 'echo "{{.NESTED_MODULES}}"'
+
+  generate-changelog:
+    desc: "  Generates an automated release changelog based on conventional-commits PR titles in CHANGELOG.md file."
+    run: once
+    requires:
+      vars:
+      - VERSION
+    cmds:
+    -  'VERSION={{.VERSION}} {{.TASKFILE_DIR2}}/generate-changelog.sh'
+