Release Please

Release Please: Automate Software Release Process

Automate software release process with Release Please, an open-source tool analyzing pull requests, generating changelogs and release notes, tagging repositories, and creating GitHub/GitLab releases.

What is Release Please?

Release Please is an open-source tool developed by Google that helps automate the release process for software projects. It integrates into the developer workflow on GitHub/GitLab and analyzes pull requests to determine what should be included in the next release.

Some of the key features of Release Please include:

• Automatically generating changelogs and release notes by aggregating information from pull requests
• Recommending the next logical version number (semantic versioning) based on the types of changes
• Creating GitHub/GitLab releases and tagging repositories
• Supporting monorepos and multiple packages in the same repository
• Extensive configuration options to customize the release process

By automating mundane tasks like changelogs and release drafting, Release Please frees up developer time to focus on building software. It brings consistency and reliability to the release process through automated enforcement of semver. Overall, Release Please aims to make releasing software easier for development teams.

Release Please Features

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