Create release

Create a release in GitHub. A release is always associated with a tag, so the tag must exist or it will be created.

The release can have a title, body, and optionally any assets you want to attach like compiled files for distribution.

Create release

This uses the Create Release action and is based on the doc’s example.

Warning- this action is archived. The docs recommend:

Sample:

main.yml

  name: Create Release
    
  on:
    push:
      tags:
        - 'v*'

  jobs:
    build:
      name: Create Release

      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        
      steps:
        - name: Checkout code
          uses: actions/checkout@v2
            
        - name: Create Release
          id: create_release
          uses: actions/create-release@v1
          env:
            GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          with:
            tag_name: ${{ github.ref }}
            release_name: Release ${{ github.ref }}
            draft: false
            prerelease: false

I don’t know what the point is of setting the body as that will change each time. Maybe if you have some changelog text file to read from. Otherwise go and edit the body of the created release.

            with:
              body: |
                Changes in this Release
                - First Change
                - Second Change

GitHub Release Action

link

The docs and functionality are limited compared with the action covered above.

Sample:

```yaml name: Create Release

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v*'

jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@master

  - name: Create a release
    uses: elgohr/Github-Release-Action@master
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}
    with:
      args: MyReleaseMessage

The docs say this but probably not true as the other action uses the token fine.

Please note, that you can’t use ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} as it isn’t allowed to publish releases.