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Update Release Notes with New Badges

Update Release Notes with New Badges #2

Workflow file for this run

.github/workflows/update-release.yml at f742763
name: Update Previous Release Notes
on:
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
- cron: "0 0 * * *" # Runs daily at midnight UTC
permissions:
contents: write # Required to edit release notes
jobs:
update-release-notes:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Get latest and previous release tags
id: get_releases
run: |
LATEST_RELEASE=$(gh release list --limit 2 --json tagName --jq '.[0].tagName')
PREV_RELEASE=$(gh release list --limit 2 --json tagName --jq '.[1].tagName')
echo "Latest release: $LATEST_RELEASE"
echo "Previous release: $PREV_RELEASE"
echo "LATEST_RELEASE=$LATEST_RELEASE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
echo "PREV_RELEASE=$PREV_RELEASE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Get previous release notes
id: fetch_release_notes
run: |
gh release view "$PREV_RELEASE" --json body --jq '.body' > release_notes.txt
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Modify only the top badges
run: |
# Properly escape parentheses in regex
BADGE_REGEX='!\[Version\]\(.*?\)\s*!.*?\)\s*!.*?\)\s*!.*?\)\s*!.*?\)\s*!.*?\)\s*\n'
NEW_BADGES="![GitHub release (latest by hari)](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/harilvfs/carch/$PREV_RELEASE/total?color=%235E81AC&style=for-the-badge&logoColor=85e185&labelColor=1c1c29) ![GitHub commits since latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/commits-since/harilvfs/carch/$PREV_RELEASE?color=%23A3BE8C&style=for-the-badge&logoColor=85e185&labelColor=1c1c29)\n"
# Use Perl for regex replacement to handle newlines properly
perl -i -pe "s|$BADGE_REGEX|$NEW_BADGES|" release_notes.txt
- name: Update previous release with modified notes
run: |
gh release edit "$PREV_RELEASE" --notes-file release_notes.txt
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}