Semantic Release Azure DevOps pipeline extensions

Release notes

Generate Release notes based on conventional commits by pipeline step

release-notes task

Azure pipelines (default parameters):

steps:
- task: release-notes@1
  displayName: 'Release notes'

Azure pipelines (all parameters):

steps:
- task: release-notes@1
  displayName: 'Release notes'
  inputs:
    releaseNotesFrom: 1.0.0
    releaseNotesTo: HEAD
    releaseNotesPath: docs/release-notes.md 
    releaseNotesTemplatePath: src/main/resources/release-notes-template.md
    setVersionToGitTag: true
    gitTagPrefix: v
    gitTagSuffix: alpha
    hideSubprocessOutput: true
    workingDirectory:  $(Build.SourcesDirectory)
    normalizeMergeCommit: true

push-git-tag task

Description: Push all git tags or only the latest git tag to the ADO git repository

Precondition:

Git credentials, user name and email should be configured before running this task. See Microsoft docs page for more information.

Example:

steps:
  - checkout: self
    persistCredentials: true
    clean: true
    displayName: "Allow scripts to access the system token"
  - script: |
      git config user.email noreply@example.com
      git config user.name "ADO Build agent"
    displayName: "Configure git user"

Azure pipelines (default parameters):

steps:
- task: push-git-tag@1
  displayName: 'Push git tag'

Azure pipelines (all parameters):

steps:
- task: push-git-tag@1
  displayName: 'Push git tag'
  inputs:
    publishLatestTagOnly: true
    remoteName: origin
    hideSubprocessOutput: true
    workingDirectory:  $(Build.SourcesDirectory)

update-yaml

Description: Update key:value in the yaml file (e.g. version)

Azure pipelines (minimal allowed parameters):

steps:
- task: update-yaml@1
  displayName: 'Update yaml'
  inputs:
    filename: Chart.yaml
    key: version

Azure pipelines (all parameters):

steps:
- task: update-yaml@1
  displayName: 'Update yaml'
  inputs:
    filename: Chart.yaml
    key: version
    value: 3.2.1 # if omitted will use the latest git tag
    createBackup: true # create a backup of the original file
    hideSubprocessOutput: true
    workingDirectory:  $(Build.SourcesDirectory)

See Conventional Commits for specification.

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