Automatic Release

Automatic Release is a composite GitHub Action that joins together multiple actions to automate your project releases.

It does so by:

• setting up Java to the specified version in with.java-version;
• find out what build tool you are using:
  • if you are using Maven, it loads the project variables (version and modules) from your pom.xml file and builds it using mvn package;
  • if you are using Gradle, it loads the project variables from both your build.gradle and settings.gradle files and builds it using ./gradlew build;
  • if you are using none of the above, the action fails (Apache Ant is NOT supported).
• finally, it uses the previous loaded variables to create a new release with tag $VERSION and uses your $COMMIT_MESSAGE as the description. Every file found during the compilation process will be published.

To start using it, create a new workflow and insert the following:

# Name of the action
name: Automatic Release

# Event to run on
on:
  # Will run on every push in the "main" branch
  push:
    branches:
      - main

permissions:
  contents: write

# Jobs that will execute
jobs:
  release:
    name: Setup Environment, Build JAR and Release Project
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Automatic Release
        uses: Fulminazzo/java-automatic-release@v1
        with:
          java-version: 8
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          REPOSITORY_NAME: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
          # Message specified in the commit
          COMMIT_MESSAGE: ${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}