semantic_release plugin for fastlane

fastlane add_plugin semantic_release

Automated version managment and generator of release notes. Inspired by semantic-release for npm packages. Based on conventional commits.

Semantic Release for Fastlane @ Medium - By Jiri Otahal

• parses all commits since last version
• groups those commits by their type (fix, feat, docs, refactor, chore, etc)
• and creates formated release notes either in markdown or in slack format

Available parameters:

• format: 'slack|markdown|plain' (defaults to markdown). This formats the changelog for the destination you need. If you're using this for TestFlight changelogs, we suggest using the plain option
• title: 'My Title' - is appended to the release notes title, "1.1.8 My Title (YYYY-MM-DD)"
• display_title: true|false (defaults to true) - allows you to hide the entire first line of the changelog
• display_links: true|false (defaults to true) - allows you to hide links to commits from your changelog
• commit_url: 'https://github.com/username/repository/commit' - prepended to the commit ID to build usable links
• View other options by searching for available_options in conventional_changelog.rb

Example:

notes = conventional_changelog(format: 'slack', title: 'Android Alpha')

• analyzes your git history
• finds last tag on current branch (for example ios/beta/1.3.2)
• parses the last version from tag (1.3.2)
• gets all commits since this tag
• analyzes subject of every single commit and increases version number if there is a need (check conventional commit rules)
• if next version number is higher then last version number it will recommend you to release this version

Options:

• ignore_scopes: ['android','windows']: allows you to ignore any commits which include a given scope, like this one: feat(android): add functionality not relevant to the release we are producing

Example usage:

isReleasable = analyze_commits(match: 'ios/beta*')

It provides these variables in lane_context.

['RELEASE_ANALYZED', 'True if commits were analyzed.'],
['RELEASE_IS_NEXT_VERSION_HIGHER', 'True if next version is higher then last version'],
['RELEASE_LAST_TAG_HASH', 'Hash of commit that is tagged as a last version'],
['RELEASE_LAST_VERSION', 'Last version number - parsed from last tag.'],
['RELEASE_NEXT_MAJOR_VERSION', 'Major number of the next version'],
['RELEASE_NEXT_MINOR_VERSION', 'Minor number of the next version'],
['RELEASE_NEXT_PATCH_VERSION', 'Patch number of the next version'],
['RELEASE_NEXT_VERSION', 'Next version string in format (major.minor.patch)'],

And you can access these like this:

next_version = lane_context[SharedValues::RELEASE_NEXT_VERSION]

## Tests

To run the test suite (contained in ./spec), call bundle exec rake

If you need anything ping us on twitter.

Jiri Otahal