VSCode-Extension: Release Rocket

Easily create releases of your product including Git, Maven (pom.xml), Jira and Confluence! The current checked out branch is used to create the release from.

Release notes and changelogs are based on Jira issues with given semantic fix version.

How does it work?

You can also view the following Demo on Youtube.

Features

Git

• Tag creation from the given release version
• Next release version prediction from last Git tag
• Warn if current branch is not clean on startup

Jira

• Current NEXT-version renaming to new release version
• Current NEXT-version marking as released
• New NEXT-version creation
• Detection of multiple NEXT-versions which are equal at the beginning of their names
• Warn if no issues found on startup
• Warn if not all issues in status category done on startup

Confluence

• Release notes page creation

Changelog

• Updating an existing Changelog file (e. g. CHANGELOG.md) with headline # Changelog

Maven

• Updating version in pom.xml files with the given release version
• Using version-tag in pom.xml to predict next release version (preferred over last git tag)
• An error will be thrown if feature is activated and pom.xml could not be found

Summary

• Creating a helpful summary when finished

More Details

Jira and Confluence Authentication:

• Basis Authentication using Password or API-Token for Jira cloud instances
• Secure password storage for Jira and Confluence using SecureStorage
• Automatically recognizes missing or changed credentials

Extension Settings

Example:

{
  "releaseRocket.productName": "myVipApp",

  "releaseRocket.git.enabled": true,
  "releaseRocket.git.releaseTagPrefix": "",

  "releaseRocket.jira.enabled": true,
  "releaseRocket.jira.url": "https://jira.my-company.com",
  "releaseRocket.jira.projectKey": "VIPAPP",
  "releaseRocket.jira.versionPrefix": "VA - ",

  "releaseRocket.confluence.enabled": true,
  "releaseRocket.confluence.url": "https://confluence.my-company.com",
  "releaseRocket.confluence.parentPageId": 950239402,
  "releaseRocket.confluence.titlePrefix": "My Title Prefix",

  "releaseRocket.changelog.enabled": true,
  "releaseRocket.changelog.filePath": "changelog.md",

  "releaseRocket.ciBuildsUrl": "http://ci.greatest-company.com",

  "releaseRocket.maven.enabled":true,
  "releaseRocket.maven.parentPomDir": "myApp-build",

  "releaseRocket.debug": "false"
}

Known Issues

Self signed certificate

When using a self signed certificate a connection to Jira or Confluence could not be established and an error is thrown. You could suppress this error by using the VSCode setting

  "http.proxyStrictSSL": false