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Paul Nothaft fbc18a386b ci: batch stable releases into one daily version (#919)
* ci: batch stable releases into one daily version

The stable release PR was auto-merged the instant it went green, so a
day with N bugfixes produced N patch releases (3.45.8 AND 3.45.9 on
2026-07-29 alone) — N upgrade notifications for stable users and N
full Docker build cycles.

Fixes now accumulate in release-please's rolling release PR and are
cut as ONE version per day by release-stable-daily.yml (18:00 UTC).
Approval/merge mechanics are unchanged from the inline step (#719):
approve as github-actions[bot], auto-merge as the PAT so the merge
triggers the tag-cutting run.

- Urgent fix? workflow_dispatch the daily job or merge the release PR
  by hand — the schedule is a default, not a gate.
- Beta is untouched: instant beta releases are load-bearing for
  same-day reporter verification.
- schedule only fires from the default branch; the stable copy of the
  new workflow is inert and exists to keep branches in sync.

* ci: harden the daily stable-release cut (review round)

- P1: the daily job runs on a schedule, so a fork PR can spoof the head
  branch name 'release-please--branches--stable' — gh --head matches the
  name only. Pin --base stable AND require isCrossRepository == false so
  a fork PR can never be approved+auto-merged with the release PAT.
- P2: this scheduled job is now the ONLY automatic stable cut, so the
  auto-merge-enable step no longer swallows failures (|| true); it fails
  loudly and verifies autoMergeRequest is actually set. A silently
  expired PAT would otherwise stop releases while the workflow stays
  green. Approve stays tolerant (re-approval can return non-zero).

* ci: accept an immediately-merged release PR as success (review round 2)

gh pr merge --auto merges immediately when required checks are already
green — the normal 18:00 case, since fixes land hours earlier and CI
passes. The autoMergeRequest verify then saw null on a MERGED PR and
failed the job on the happy path. Now: MERGED = success, pending
auto-merge = success, still-open-with-no-auto-merge = real failure.

* ci: read release-PR state + auto-merge in one snapshot (review round 3)

Two separate gh pr view calls raced: a pending auto-merge completing
between them made the first read OPEN and the second read null on the
now-merged PR, failing the job on a successful release. Fetch state and
autoMergeRequest together.

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Co-authored-by: Paul Nothaft <paul@MacStudio-von-Paul.local>
2026-07-30 12:14:21 +02:00

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name: Release Please
on:
push:
branches: [stable]
permissions:
contents: write
pull-requests: write
jobs:
release-please:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
release_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
tag_name: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
version: ${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.minor }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.patch }}
steps:
- name: Run Release Please
uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
id: release
with:
# Dedicated token so the release PR runs CI + can auto-merge without a
# manual review. Falls back to GITHUB_TOKEN before the secret is set (#719).
token: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_PLEASE_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
config-file: release-please-config.json
manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
target-branch: stable
# NOTE: stable release PRs are intentionally NOT auto-merged here
# anymore. Fixes accumulate in the rolling release PR and are cut as
# ONE patch version per day by release-stable-daily.yml (18:00 UTC,
# or on demand via workflow_dispatch / a manual merge of the release
# PR). Beta keeps instant releases — see release-please-beta.yml —
# because same-day reporter verification depends on it.
- name: Output Release Info
if: ${{ steps.release.outputs.release_created }}
run: |
echo "## Release Created! " >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "**Tag:** ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "**Version:** ${{ steps.release.outputs.major }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.minor }}.${{ steps.release.outputs.patch }}" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
echo "Docker images will be built and tagged with this version." >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY
# Best-effort "What's New" highlights on the freshly-created release. Runs in
# this same workflow run (not a `release:` trigger) because release-please
# creates the release with GITHUB_TOKEN, which never starts new workflow runs.
whatsnew:
needs: release-please
if: ${{ needs.release-please.outputs.release_created }}
permissions:
contents: write # edit the release body
models: read # GitHub Models (free tier)
uses: ./.github/workflows/whatsnew-highlights.yml
with:
tag: ${{ needs.release-please.outputs.tag_name }}