Autorelease steps for Github repositories that creates Github releases with the changelog. Check out this very repo's releases for an example.

Check out autorelease-travis for Travis CI integration.

To avoid the manual install process, use autorelease-setup. The prompts will guide you through the correct configuration.

npm i autorelease-setup -g
autorelease-setup

Install with NPM as a dev dependency with autorelease:

npm i autorelease autorelease-github --save-dev

Add the following to a .autoreleaserc file in the root directory:

{
  "pre": {
    "verify": [ "autorelease-github/verify.js" ]
  },
  "post": {
    "publishChangelog": [ "autorelease-github/create-release.js" ]
  }
}

Make sure the Github repository URL is specified in the package.json file:

{
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/ghusername/my-autorelease-project.git"
  }
}

And lastly, set a Github personal access token to the GH_TOKEN environment variable. The token needs to have the minimum scopes of repo, read:org, user:email, and write:repo_hook.

export GH_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX