A GitHub action to extract release notes for a specific version from changelog generated by standard-version. For changelogs based on Conventional Commits.

• changelog_path

  • Optional
  • Path of the changelog file (relative to root). Default is ./CHANGELOG.md.

• version

  • Required
  • Name of the version in the changelog. (e.g. v1.2.1-beta.3).
  • You can also provide the tag using ${{ github.ref }}, if the workflow trigger is on push of tags.

• release_notes

  • The release notes for a version.

# Get the release notes and set a convenient 'id' for accessing later

uses: yashanand1910/[email protected]
id: get_release_notes
with:
  changelog_path: ./CHANGELOG.md # Optional
  version: ${{ github.ref }} # Required

...

# An example of how to access the output

body: ${{ steps.get_release_notes.outputs.release_notes }}