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Conventional Changelog plugin for release-it

This plugin will provide the recommended bump to release-it, and update the changelog file (e.g. CHANGELOG.md).

npm install --save-dev @release-it/conventional-changelog

Configuration

In the release-it config, for example:

"plugins": {
  "@release-it/conventional-changelog": {
    "preset": {
      "name": "angular"
    },
    "infile": "CHANGELOG.md"
  }
}

The plugin is a wrapper around conventional-changelog packages conventional-recommended-bump, conventional-changelog-core and more.

Contents

preset

For preset.name, use one of:

Use an object with name and types to use a custom preset:

"plugins": {
  "@release-it/conventional-changelog": {
    "infile": "CHANGELOG.md",
    "preset": {
      "name": "conventionalcommits",
      "types": [
        {
          "type": "feat",
          "section": "Features"
        },
        {
          "type": "fix",
          "section": "Bug Fixes"
        },
        {}
      ]
    }
  }
}

This is passed as the first argument to bumper.loadPreset (in both bumper and changelog writer).

See the Conventional Changelog Configuration Spec (v2.1.0) for the configuration object to pass as preset.

Bump

tagOpts

commitsOpts

whatBump

{
  "plugins": {
    "@release-it/conventional-changelog": {
      "whatBump": false
    }
  }
}

ignoreRecommendedBump

Default value: false

Use true to ignore the recommended bump, and use the version provided by release-it (command line argument or prompt).

Note that the changelog preview shows the recommended bump, as the desired version isn't known yet in the release-it process. The infile will have the correct version.

strictSemVer

Default value: false

Use true to strictly follow semver, also in consecutive pre-releases. This means that from a pre-release, a recommended bump will result in a next pre-release for the next version.

For example, from 1.0.0-alpha.0 a recommended bump of minor will result in a preminor bump to 1.1.0-alpha.0.

The default behavior results in a prerelease bump to 1.0.0-alpha.1.

Changelog

infile

Default value: undefined

header

Set the main header for the changelog document:

{
  "plugins": {
    "@release-it/conventional-changelog": {
      "infile": "CHANGELOG.md",
      "header": "# Changelog",
      "preset": {
        "name": "conventionalcommits"
      }
    }
  }
}

context

Default value: undefined

This option will be passed as the second argument (context) to conventional-changelog-core, for example:

"plugins": {
  "@release-it/conventional-changelog": {
    "context": {
      "linkCompare": false
    }
  }
}

gitRawCommitsOpts

Default value: undefined

Options for git-raw-commits. For example, you can use the following option to include merge commits into changelog:

{
  "plugins": {
    "@release-it/conventional-changelog": {
      "gitRawCommitsOpts": {
        "merges": null
      }
    }
  }
}

parserOpts

For example, you can use the following option to set the merge pattern during parsing the commit message:

{
  "plugins": {
    "@release-it/conventional-changelog": {
      "parserOpts": {
        "mergePattern": "^Merge pull request #(\\d+) from (.*)$"
      }
    }
  }
}

writerOpts

For example, you can use the following option to group the commits by 'scope' instead of 'type' by default.

{
  "plugins": {
    "@release-it/conventional-changelog": {
      "writerOpts": {
        "groupBy": "scope"
      }
    }
  }
}

If you want to customize the templates used to write the changelog, you can do it like in a .release-it.js file like so:

const fs = require('fs');

const commitTemplate = fs.readFileSync('commit.hbs').toString();

module.exports = {
  plugins: {
    '@release-it/conventional-changelog': {
      writerOpts: {
        commitPartial: commitTemplate
      }
    }
  }
};

Command-line

Options for this plugin can be set from the command line. Some examples:

release-it --plugins.@release-it/conventional-changelog.infile=history.md
release-it --no-plugins.@release-it/conventional-changelog.infile

Depending on your shell or OS this may differ.

GitHub Actions

When using this plugin in a GitHub Action, make sure to set fetch-depth: 0 so the history is available to determine the correct recommended bump and changelog.

Also see https://github.com/release-it/release-it/blob/master/docs/ci.md#github-actions