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Fix the release flow for GitHub immutable releases - #253
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release.sh->>origin: Push branch and annotated tag with release notes
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ReleaseWorkflow->>GoReleaser: Pass release notes and pushed tag
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- Line 63: Update the release-notes validation in the workflow before GoReleaser
runs to reject lightweight tags and require the extracted annotated tag body to
contain non-whitespace text; do not rely on the file being non-empty, since Git
may write only a newline for an empty body.
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GitHub immutable releases are on for this repo. After a release is
published, no one can add assets to it. dev-bin/release.sh published the
release with `gh release create`. Then GoReleaser ran on
`release: published` and tried to upload assets to that release.
Immutable releases block this upload. mmdbconvert v0.2.0 had the same
failure.
Now release.sh pushes an annotated tag with the release notes in its
message. The tag push starts the Release workflow in the `release`
environment. GoReleaser reads the notes from the tag, creates a draft
release, uploads the assets, then publishes the release.
The workflow fetches the tags again after checkout. On a tag push,
actions/checkout replaces the annotated tag with a lightweight tag.
Set `permissions: {}` at the workflow level. Each job sets the
permissions that it needs.
Remove `release.target_commitish` from .goreleaser.yml. The tag already
points at the correct commit. Set `release.name_template` to keep the
"2.0.0"-style release titles that `gh release create` made.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Before, the Release workflow ran GoReleaser only at release time. A broken .goreleaser.yml or build showed up only during a release. Add a job that runs a GoReleaser snapshot build on PRs, on pushes to main, and on manual runs. The job does not publish anything. mmdbconvert has the same check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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I didn't see any issues, but I ran a Claude review!
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changelog: disable: true (line 45, outside this diff) is still set. With it, GoReleaser ignores the --release-notes file that the workflow passes at .github/workflows/release.yml:83. Every GitHub release then gets an empty body. Immutable releases lock the release after it is published, so you cannot add the notes later.
I tested this with GoReleaser 2.17.1. With changelog.disable: true, the log shows "skipped generating changelog" and GoReleaser never reads the file. When I enabled the changelog, GoReleaser loaded the file. The GoReleaser docs also say this.
Suggestion: remove the changelog.disable setting.
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Fixed in 4ab751e. Removed changelog.disable here and in the affected companion repos. With GoReleaser 2.18.2, a smoke test loaded the supplied notes file and failed when that file was missing. No release was published during testing.
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| # The tag message is the version, a blank line, and the release notes. The | ||
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With -m, --cleanup=verbatim does not add a newline at the end of the tag message. If a releaser signs tags (tag.gpgSign=true or tag.forceSignAnnotated), git puts the signature directly after the last line of the notes:
- Last note.-----BEGIN SSH SIGNATURE-----
Then git cannot find the signature, so git tag -v fails. Also, %(contents:body) in the workflow returns the whole signature block, so the signature goes into the release notes. I got this result locally with git 2.43 and an SSH signing key.
Suggestion: use --cleanup=whitespace. It keeps # lines and adds the newline at the end. Or add a newline at the end of the message.
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Fixed in 4ab751e with --cleanup=whitespace, including the companion release scripts. Temporary-repository tests confirmed that Markdown headings survive, signed tags verify, and the extracted release notes exclude the signature.
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The script does not make sure that $notes has content before it pushes the tag. The workflow rejects a tag without notes (.github/workflows/release.yml:67), but only after the tag is public. For example, if the CHANGELOG.md section for the version is empty, the script pushes the tag, and then the workflow fails with "has no release notes". The releaser must then delete the remote tag by hand and run the script again.
Suggestion: add the same non-whitespace check here, before any git push.
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Fixed in 4ab751e. The script now rejects notes without a non-whitespace character before either push. I tested empty and whitespace-only changelog sections against a local bare remote. Both failed before changing the remote.
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The script pushes the branch before it creates the tag, and it does not handle a tag that already exists. A failed run can leave partial state, and then the next run fails.
Example: the first run creates v2.0.1 locally, and then git push origin v2.0.1 fails because of a network error or a ruleset. On the second run, the branch push succeeds again, and then git tag -a fails with "tag already exists". The releaser must delete the local tag first.
Suggestion: create the tag before any push. Or push both in one command: git push --atomic origin HEAD "refs/tags/$tag".
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The retry limitation is real. I kept the branch-then-tag sequence used by mmdbverify and mmdbconvert for this PR. Creating the tag earlier or using an atomic push would still leave a local tag after a failed push, so retry handling needs a separate decision about existing local and remote tags. This change does not make retries automatic.
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| args: release --clean --release-notes ${{ runner.temp }}/release-notes.md |
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GoReleaser selects the release tag itself (the highest version tag that points at HEAD). The notes come from $GITHUB_REF_NAME. These two tags can be different.
Example: the v2.0.1 run fails, and the releaser tags the same commit as v2.0.2. If someone re-runs the v2.0.1 run, or if both runs are in the queue, GoReleaser releases v2.0.2 with the v2.0.1 notes.
Suggestion: set GORELEASER_CURRENT_TAG: ${{ github.ref_name }} in the step env.
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Fixed in 4ab751e. The GoReleaser step now sets GORELEASER_CURRENT_TAG to github.ref_name, with the same change in the companion workflows. A smoke test put two version tags on one commit and confirmed that selecting the lower tag retained that version and its supplied notes.
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| - You must have the [GitHub CLI tool (gh)](https://cli.github.com/) installed, | ||
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The script no longer uses gh, but dev-bin/release.sh:15-25 still requires gh auth status and gh repo view, and this line still makes gh a prerequisite. A releaser with working git push credentials but no gh login cannot release. Also, this line says the gh login must be able to push to the repo, but the push uses git credentials, not gh. The git ls-remote origin check in the script already verifies access.
Suggestion: remove the gh checks from the script and the gh prerequisite from this file.
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Agreed that gh authentication does not prove Git push access. git ls-remote only proves read access, either. I retained the existing preflight checks to match mmdbverify and the other CLI release scripts. Removing the gh prerequisite and correcting the credential guidance would be a useful shared cleanup, but I have left it outside this release-flow fix.
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This check does not test the release settings that this PR changes. --snapshot skips validate and publish, and the job does not pass --release-notes. So a broken release: section, or the ignored notes file (see the changelog.disable comment), passes CI. The problem shows only at release time, and the second commit says that this job is there to prevent that.
Suggestion: add a goreleaser check step, and find some way to test the release notes path.
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Agreed that the snapshot job covers builds and packaging, not the complete publishing path. I kept the shared CI job and separately tested tag-note extraction and GoReleaser's --release-notes handling, including rejection of a missing file. The GoReleaser checks verified the disabled-changelog fix.
I also ran goreleaser check. It reports valid configuration but exits unsuccessfully because the existing archives.builds and nfpms.builds properties are deprecated. Adding that CI gate would need the config cleanup too. No real publishing was tested, and the local notes checks are not a new CI regression test.
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Nit: --skip=publish has no effect, because --snapshot already implies --skip=announce,publish,validate. The flag can make a reader think that the snapshot would publish without it.
Suggestion: release --snapshot --clean.
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Agreed that the flag is redundant in snapshot mode. I kept the command identical to mmdbverify and mmdbconvert. There is no behavior change from removing it, so I left that cleanup out of this PR.
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This job does a full cross-platform build and the deb and rpm packaging on every PR, and again on every push to main. The Go workflow already builds the same code. The run on main repeats the check that the PR already did on the same code, so it uses about 10 more builds and the nfpm packaging each time.
Suggestion: run this job only on PRs, or only when .goreleaser.yml or go.mod changes.
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I kept the PR and main triggers used by the other CLI repos. STF-1869 explicitly asks for both. The snapshot job also exercises release archives and package contents, which the Go test workflow does not cover. Restricting it to .goreleaser.yml and go.mod would miss changes to source code and packaged files. Any reduction in these checks should be considered across the CLI repos.
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| echo "Tag $GITHUB_REF_NAME is not an annotated tag. Create it with dev-bin/release.sh." | ||
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| git tag -l --format='%(contents:body)' "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" > "$RUNNER_TEMP/release-notes.md" |
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This step gets the tag body by hand. GoReleaser already has {{ .TagBody }}, which it reads from the same %(contents:body). With --release-notes-tmpl and a template that contains {{ .TagBody }}, you do not need this extraction. The check that the tag is annotated and has notes is still useful, so you can keep it. This depends on the fix for changelog.disable.
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I kept the existing file-based handoff used by mmdbverify and mmdbconvert. We still need to inspect the tag body to reject blank notes, and passing that same validated file to GoReleaser keeps the validation and release content together. A template would add another file without removing that validation, so I left this unchanged.
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Fixes STF-1869.
The old script published a GitHub release before GoReleaser uploaded its assets. Immutable releases reject those uploads. The script now pushes an annotated version tag. After release approval, GoReleaser uploads the binaries and packages to a draft, then publishes it with the tag's notes.
Changes
v*tag pushes in thereleaseenvironment.changelog.disable, which caused GoReleaser to ignore the supplied notes.--cleanup=whitespace.main, and manual runs.Validation
goreleaser checkreports the existingarchives.buildsandnfpms.buildsdeprecations. Snapshot packaging succeeds with those settings.Repository settings
GitHub settings were checked: immutable releases are enforced by the organization, Actions are enabled, and the
releaseenvironment permitsv*tags. The same releaser team approves deployments and can create protected release tags. The workflow grantscontents: writeonly to the release job and uses the built-inGITHUB_TOKEN. No settings changes or additional secrets are needed.The next release will verify the complete publication flow. Companion PRs: mmdbverify #169, mmdbconvert #121, mm-geofeed-verifier #228, geoipupdate #561. ENG-5518 tracks geoipupdate's later CI migration.
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