vociferate/changelog.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

A ### Breaking section is used in addition to Keep a Changelog's standard sections to explicitly document changes that are backwards-incompatible but would otherwise appear under ### Changed. Entries under ### Breaking trigger a major version bump in automated release recommendation logic.

[Unreleased]

Breaking

• The default version source is now a root-level release-version file containing only the current release version. Repositories that store versions in code must now pass explicit version-file and version-pattern values.

Changed

• The composite action now downloads and caches a released Linux vociferate binary instead of installing Go and running the module source directly.
• Added workflow coverage for the released Linux binaries consumed by the composite action on both amd64 and arm64.
• Release preparation now runs directly in the release workflow; the repository-local helper script and just recipe were removed.
• Release artifacts are now limited to linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 binaries plus checksums.txt.
• The CLI entrypoint, internal package paths, build outputs, and automation references now use the vociferate name instead of the earlier releaseprep naming.
• The release workflow and composite action now treat a provided version as an override and otherwise fall back to the recommended next version automatically.
• Release creation is now idempotent: existing releases for the same tag are updated in place instead of recreated.
• Release asset uploads now replace existing assets with matching filenames so reruns stay synchronized.
• Release recommendation now forces a major version bump whenever a ### Breaking heading is present in ## [Unreleased], even if the section has no bullet entries yet.
• Reusable workflow_call support for the Prepare Release workflow, enabling other repositories to invoke it directly.
• Automated release artifact publishing in the release workflow for darwin, linux, and windows binaries plus checksums.txt.
• README guidance for release artifacts and examples for reusing vociferate as a composite action or reusable workflow.
• Initial standalone vociferate migration from its earlier internal naming.
• Configurable version source and parser via --version-file and --version-pattern.
• Configurable changelog path via --changelog.
• Composite action (action.yml) for release preparation and recommendation flows.
• Gitea workflows for push validation and manual release preparation.