Can we ignore pre-releases when auto-generating the Release Notes?

[beutlich]

Is it possible to (optionally) define the base tag when auto-generating the Release Notes and basically being able to ignore the pre-releases like alpha, beta and RCs to have a full list in the final release? Thanks for that feature anyway!

[karasowles]

Hi @beutlich -- I'm tagging in @MylesBorins on this

[MylesBorins]

If you use the generate release notes API, rather than the UI, you can manually set the previous tag

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#generate-release-notes-content-for-a-release

With that said, if you use valid semver we should ignore pre-releases when hitting the generate release button. Have you tried it out?

[beutlich]

Yes, I tried when editing already existing release tags using the new feature. Hence I wondered when I got

where v4.0.0-rc.2 is a pre-release.

[MylesBorins]

@beutlich is the repo public, would you mind sharing it? This seems like a bug we should be able to fix!

[beutlich]

Sure. This is the tag I was editing: https://github.com/modelica/ModelicaStandardLibrary/releases/tag/v4.0.0. Thank you for taking care,

[MylesBorins]

I've shared this case with our team, it might even be something specific to our algorithm and SemverMajor... In the mean time you can use the API to manually set a range and get the correct notes. I'll update if we can ship a fix in a timely fashion

[beutlich]

It might be even useful to have the base tag/rev selectable in the GUI, too.

[MylesBorins]

@beutlich I absolutely agree but adding this functionality is not currently in scope with the work we have lined up (don't have bandwidth to see through larger UI change right now)

[beutlich]

This request is now resolved. Thank you! Good job!