3.0.2 is a patch release focused on release reliability and compatibility. It
reuses existing draft releases when publishing prereleases, supports replacing
release assets on Gitea, hardens streamed asset uploads, and provides clearer
release-creation diagnostics. It also includes TypeScript, coverage, and tooling
maintenance merged since 3.0.1.

This release fixes #795, #438, and #803. The upload transport hardening covers the
historical failure reported in #790, although current hosted Node 24 runners did
not reproduce it naturally. The diagnostics work is related to #786 and does not
claim a reproducible release-creation fix.

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• feat: improve release error reporting and test coverage by @chenrui333 in #813

Bug fixes 🐛

• fix: publish existing draft releases as prereleases by @godfengliang in #801
• fix: upload small checksum assets reliably by @chenrui333 in #815
• fix: replace existing release assets on Gitea by @chenrui333 in #816
• fix: clarify release creation 404 errors by @chenrui333 in #817

Other Changes 🔄

• chore(deps): upgrade TypeScript to 7 by @chenrui333 in #812
• chore(deps): remove unused TypeScript tooling by @chenrui333 in #814
• dependency, Node 24 pin, and CI maintenance merged since 3.0.1

3.0.1

• maintenance release with updated dependencies

3.0.0 is a major release that moves the action runtime from Node 20 to Node 24.
Use v3 on GitHub-hosted runners and self-hosted fleets that already support the
Node 24 Actions runtime. If you still need the last Node 20-compatible line, stay on
v2.6.2.

What's Changed

Other Changes 🔄

• Move the action runtime and bundle target to Node 24
• Update @types/node to the Node 24 line and allow future Dependabot updates
• Keep the floating major tag on v3; v2 remains pinned to the latest 2.x release

What's Changed

Other Changes 🔄

• chore(deps): bump picomatch from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 by @dependabot[bot] in #775
• chore(deps): bump brace-expansion from 5.0.4 to 5.0.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #777
• chore(deps): bump vite from 8.0.0 to 8.0.5 by @dependabot[bot] in #781

Full Changelog: v2...v2.6.2

2.6.1 is a patch release focused on restoring linked discussion thread creation when
discussion_category_name is set. It fixes #764, where the draft-first publish flow
stopped carrying the discussion category through the final publish step.

If you still hit an issue after upgrading, please open a report with the bug template and include a minimal repro or sanitized workflow snippet where possible.

What's Changed

Bug fixes 🐛

• fix: preserve discussion category on publish by @chenrui333 in #765

2.6.0 is a minor release centered on previous_tag support for generate_release_notes,
which lets workflows pin GitHub's comparison base explicitly instead of relying on the default range.
It also includes the recent concurrent asset upload recovery fix, a working_directory docs sync,
a checked-bundle freshness guard for maintainers, and clearer immutable-prerelease guidance where
GitHub platform behavior imposes constraints on how prerelease asset uploads can be published.

If you still hit an issue after upgrading, please open a report with the bug template and include a minimal repro or sanitized workflow snippet where possible.

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• feat: support previous_tag for generate_release_notes by @pocesar in #372

Bug fixes 🐛

• fix: recover concurrent asset metadata 404s by @chenrui333 in #760

Other Changes 🔄

• docs: clarify reused draft release behavior by @chenrui333 in #759
• docs: clarify working_directory input by @chenrui333 in #761
• ci: verify dist bundle freshness by @chenrui333 in #762
• fix: clarify immutable prerelease uploads by @chenrui333 in #763

2.5.3 is a patch release focused on the remaining path-handling and release-selection bugs uncovered after 2.5.2.
It fixes #639, #571, #280, #614, #311, #403, and #368.
It also adds documentation clarifications for #541, #645, #542, #393, and #411,
where the current behavior is either usage-sensitive or constrained by GitHub platform limits rather than an action-side runtime bug.

If you still hit an issue after upgrading, please open a report with the bug template and include a minimal repro or sanitized workflow snippet where possible.

What's Changed

Bug fixes 🐛

• fix: prefer token input over GITHUB_TOKEN by @chenrui333 in #751
• fix: clean up duplicate drafts after canonicalization by @chenrui333 in #753
• fix: support Windows-style file globs by @chenrui333 in #754
• fix: normalize refs-tag inputs by @chenrui333 in #755
• fix: expand tilde file paths by @chenrui333 in #756

Other Changes 🔄

• docs: clarify token precedence by @chenrui333 in #752
• docs: clarify GitHub release limits by @chenrui333 in #758
• documentation clarifications for empty-token handling, preserve_order, and special-character asset filename behavior

Full Changelog: v2...v2.5.3

2.5.2 is a patch release focused on the remaining release-creation and prerelease regressions in the 2.5.x bug-fix cycle.
It fixes #705, fixes #708, fixes #740, fixes #741, and fixes #722.
Regression testing covers the shared-tag race, prerelease event behavior, dotfile asset labels,
same-filename concurrent uploads, and blocked-tag cleanup behavior.

If you still hit an issue after upgrading, please open a report with the bug template and include a minimal repro or sanitized workflow snippet where possible.

What's Changed

Bug fixes 🐛

• fix: canonicalize releases after concurrent create by @chenrui333 in #746
• fix: preserve prereleased events for prereleases by @chenrui333 in #748
• fix: restore dotfile asset labels by @chenrui333 in #749
• fix: handle upload already_exists races across workflows by @api2062 in #745
• fix: clean up orphan drafts when tag creation is blocked by @chenrui333 in #750

New Contributors

• @api2062 made their first contribution in #745

Full Changelog: v2...v2.5.2

2.5.1 is a patch release focused on regressions introduced in 2.5.0 and on release lookup reliability.
It fixes #713, addresses #703, and fixes #724. Regression testing shows that
current master no longer reproduces the finalize-race behavior reported in #704 and #709.

What's Changed

Bug fixes 🐛

• fix: fetch correct asset URL after finalization; test; some refactoring by @pzhlkj6612 in #738
• fix: release marked as 'latest' despite make_latest: false by @Boshen in #715
• fix: use getReleaseByTag API instead of iterating all releases by @kim-em in #725

Other Changes 🔄

• dependency updates, including the ESM/runtime compatibility refresh in #731

New Contributors

• @autarch made their first contribution in #716
• @pzhlkj6612 made their first contribution in #738
• @Boshen made their first contribution in #715
• @kim-em made their first contribution in #725

Full Changelog: v2...v2.5.1

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• feat: mark release as draft until all artifacts are uploaded by @dumbmoron in #692

Other Changes 🔄

• chore(deps): bump the npm group across 1 directory with 5 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #697
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1 in the github-actions group by @dependabot[bot] in #689

New Contributors

• @dumbmoron made their first contribution in #692

Full Changelog: v2.4.2...v2.5.0