🚀 GitHub Release Action

⚡ The easiest way to automate GitHub Releases — fully powered by your workflow

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🎬 See It In Action (30 sec)

Automated release creation with version bumping 🚀

💥 Why This Exists

Most release workflows are:

• ❌ Manual and error-prone
• ❌ Inconsistent across teams
• ❌ Hard to scale

This action turns your CI/CD into:

🧠 Self-driving releases with zero friction

⚡ Features

• 🏷️ Automatic semantic versioning
• 🧠 PR label–driven version bump
• 🧾 GitHub-native release notes
• 📦 Artifact uploads
• 🔮 Release preview in PR
• ⚙️ Zero-config mode
• 🔐 Enterprise-ready

🚀 30-Second Setup

- name: Create Release
  uses: anantacloud-actions/github-release-action@v1

👉 That’s it. No config. No scripts. No headaches.

🎯 Real Usage

- name: Release
  uses: anantacloud-actions/github-release-action@v1
  with:
    version_bump: auto
    artifacts: "dist/app.zip"

🧠 How It Works

PR → Merge → Detect → Version → Notes → Release 🚀

🏷️ Smart Versioning

Control releases via PR labels:

Label	Result
release:major	💥 Breaking change
release:minor	🚀 Feature
none	🐛 Patch

🧾 Beautiful Release Notes (Auto)

## What's Changed

* feat: add API (#12)
* fix: resolve bug (#15)

## New Contributors

* @dev made their first contribution 🎉

🔮 Preview Before You Merge

Every PR shows future release notes:

🔮 Release Preview

- feat: add dashboard (#45)
- fix: improve performance (#48)

📦 Upload Artifacts

with:
  artifacts: "dist/app.zip,dist/report.json"

⚙️ Inputs

Name	Description	Default
token	GitHub Token	—
tag	Custom tag	auto
name	Release name	auto
body	Release notes	auto
version_bump	auto / major / minor / patch	auto
generate_release_notes	Use GitHub notes	true
artifacts	Files to upload	—
draft	Draft release	false
prerelease	Pre-release	false

📤 Outputs

Name	Description
tag	Final tag
release_url	Release URL

🎨 Customize Release Notes

Create:

.github/release.yml

changelog:
  categories:
    - title: "🚀 Features"
      labels: ["enhancement"]
    - title: "🐛 Fixes"
      labels: ["bug"]

🆚 Why Not semantic-release?

Feature	This Action	semantic-release
Setup	⚡ 1 step	❌ Complex
GitHub-native	✅ Yes	⚠️ Partial
PR-based workflow	✅ Yes	❌ No
Learning curve	🟢 Low	🔴 High

🧠 Designed For

• DevOps engineers
• Platform teams
• Open source maintainers
• Anyone tired of manual releases

🏆 What You Gain

• ⏱️ Save hours every week
• 🔐 Reduce human error
• 📦 Standardize releases
• 🚀 Ship faster

⭐ Star This Repo

If this saved you time:

• 👉 Give it a star ⭐
• 👉 Helps others discover it
• 👉 Motivates further improvements

🤝 Contributing

PRs welcome. Ideas welcome. Improvements welcome.

🔐 Security

• Dependabot enabled
• CodeQL scanning
• Secure workflows

📜 License

MIT

Stop managing releases. Start shipping them 🚀