semantic-release/gitlab

@semantic-release/gitlab

semantic-release plugin to publish a GitLab release.

Step	Description
`verifyConditions`	Verify the presence and the validity of the authentication (set via environment variables).
`publish`	Publish a GitLab release.
`success`	Add a comment to each GitLab Issue or Merge Request resolved by the release.
`fail`	Open or update a GitLab Issue with information about the errors that caused the release to fail.

Install

$ npm install @semantic-release/gitlab -D

Usage

The plugin can be configured in the semantic-release configuration file:

{
  "branches": ["main"],
  "plugins": [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
    [
      "@semantic-release/gitlab",
      {
        "gitlabUrl": "https://custom.gitlab.com",
        "assets": [
          { "path": "dist/asset.min.css", "label": "CSS distribution" },
          { "path": "dist/asset.min.js", "label": "JS distribution", "target": "generic_package" },
          { "path": "dist/asset.min.js", "label": "v${nextRelease.version}.js" },
          { "url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/README.md" }
        ]
      }
    ]
  ]
}

With this example GitLab releases will be published to the https://custom.gitlab.com instance.

Configuration

GitLab authentication

The GitLab authentication configuration is required and can be set via environment variables.

Create a personal access token with the api scope and make it available in your CI environment via the GL_TOKEN environment variable. If you are using GL_TOKEN as the remote Git repository authentication it must also have the write_repository scope.

Note: When running with dryRun only read_repository scope is required.

Environment variables

Variable	Description
`GL_TOKEN` or `GITLAB_TOKEN`	Required. The token used to authenticate with GitLab.
`GL_URL` or `GITLAB_URL`	The GitLab endpoint.
`GL_PREFIX` or `GITLAB_PREFIX`	The GitLab API prefix.
`HTTP_PROXY` or `HTTPS_PROXY`	HTTP or HTTPS proxy to use.
`NO_PROXY`	Patterns for which the proxy should be ignored. See details below.

Proxy configuration

The plugin supports passing requests through a proxy server.

You can configure a proxy server via the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable: HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxyurl.com:8080

If your proxy server requires authentication embed the username and password in the URL: HTTPS_PROXY=http://user:[email protected]:8080

If your GitLab instance is exposed via plain HTTP (not recommended!) use HTTP_PROXY instead.

If you need to bypass the proxy for some hosts, configure the NO_PROXY environment variable: NO_PROXY=*.host.com, host.com

Options

Option	Description	Default
`gitlabUrl`	The GitLab endpoint.	`GL_URL` or `GITLAB_URL` environment variable or CI provided environment variables if running on GitLab CI/CD or `https://gitlab.com`.
`gitlabApiPathPrefix`	The GitLab API prefix.	`GL_PREFIX` or `GITLAB_PREFIX` environment variable or CI provided environment variables if running on GitLab CI/CD or `/api/v4`.
`assets`	An array of files to upload to the release. See assets.	-
`milestones`	An array of milestone titles to associate to the release. See GitLab Release API.	-
`successComment`	The comment to add to each Issue and Merge Request resolved by the release. Set to false to disable commenting. See successComment.	🎉 This issue has been resolved in version ${nextRelease.version} 🎉\n\nThe release is available on GitLab release
`failComment`	The content of the issue created when a release fails. Set to `false` to disable opening an issue when a release fails. See failComment.	Friendly message with links to semantic-release documentation and support, with the list of errors that caused the release to fail.
`failTitle`	The title of the issue created when a release fails. Set to `false` to disable opening an issue when a release fails.	`The automated release is failing 🚨`
`labels`	The labels to add to the issue created when a release fails. Set to `false` to not add any label. Labels should be comma-separated as described in the official docs, e.g. `"semantic-release,bot"`.	`semantic-release`
`assignee`	The assignee to add to the issue created when a release fails.	-

assets

Can be a glob or and Array of globs and Objects with the following properties:

Property	Description	Default
`path`	Required, unless `url` is set. A glob to identify the files to upload.	-
`url`	Alternative to setting `path` this provides the ability to add links to releases, e.g. URLs to container images. Supports Lodash templating.	-
`label`	Short description of the file displayed on the GitLab release. Ignored if `path` matches more than one file. Supports Lodash templating.	File name extracted from the `path`.
`type`	Asset type displayed on the GitLab release. Can be `runbook`, `package`, `image` and `other` (see official documents on release assets). Supports Lodash templating.	`other`
`filepath`	A filepath for creating a permalink pointing to the asset (requires GitLab 12.9+, see official documents on permanent links). Ignored if `path` matches more than one file. Supports Lodash templating.	-
`target`	Controls where the file is uploaded to. Can be set to `project_upload` for storing the file as project upload or `generic_package` for storing the file as generic package.	`project_upload`
`status`	This is only applied, if `target` is set to `generic_package`. The generic package status. Can be `default` and `hidden` (see official documents on generic packages).	`default`

Each entry in the assets Array is globbed individually. A glob can be a String ("dist/**/*.js" or "dist/mylib.js") or an Array of Strings that will be globbed together (["dist/**", "!**/*.css"]).

If a directory is configured, all the files under this directory and its children will be included.

Note: If a file has a match in assets it will be included even if it also has a match in .gitignore.

assets examples

'dist/*.js': include all the js files in the dist directory, but not in its sub-directories.

[['dist', '!**/*.css']]: include all the files in the dist directory and its sub-directories excluding the css files.

[{path: 'dist/MyLibrary.js', label: 'MyLibrary JS distribution'}, {path: 'dist/MyLibrary.css', label: 'MyLibrary CSS distribution'}]: include the dist/MyLibrary.js and dist/MyLibrary.css files, and label them MyLibrary JS distribution and MyLibrary CSS distribution in the GitLab release.

[['dist/**/*.{js,css}', '!**/*.min.*'], {path: 'build/MyLibrary.zip', label: 'MyLibrary'}]: include all the js and css files in the dist directory and its sub-directories excluding the minified version, plus the build/MyLibrary.zip file and label it MyLibrary in the GitLab release.

successComment

The message for the issue comments is generated with Lodash template. The following variables are available:

Parameter	Description
`branch`	`Object` with `name`, `type`, `channel`, `range` and `prerelease` properties of the branch from which the release is done.
`lastRelease`	`Object` with `version`, `channel`, `gitTag` and `gitHead` of the last release.
`nextRelease`	`Object` with `version`, `channel`, `gitTag`, `gitHead` and `notes` of the release being done.
`commits`	`Array` of commit `Object`s with `hash`, `subject`, `body` `message` and `author`.
`releases`	`Array` with a release `Object`s for each release published, with optional release data such as `name` and `url`.
`issue`	A GitLab API Issue object the comment will be posted to, or `false` when commenting Merge Requests.
`mergeRequest`	A GitLab API Merge Request object the comment will be posted to, or `false` when commenting Issues.

failComment

The message for the issue content is generated with Lodash template. The following variables are available:

Parameter	Description
`branch`	The branch from which the release had failed.
`errors`	An `Array` of SemanticReleaseError. Each error has the `message`, `code`, `pluginName` and `details` properties. `pluginName` contains the package name of the plugin that threw the error. `details` contains a information about the error formatted in markdown.

failComment example

The failComment This release from branch ${branch.name} had failed due to the following errors:\n- ${errors.map(err => err.message).join('\\n- ')} will generate the comment:

This release from branch master had failed due to the following errors:

Error message 1

Error message 2

Compatibility

The latest version of this plugin is compatible with all currently-supported versions of GitLab, which is the current major version and previous two major versions. This plugin is not guaranteed to work with unsupported versions of GitLab.

Breaking changes in 14.0

If you are using GitLab.com or have upgraded your self-hosted GitLab instance to 14.0, please use version >=6.0.7 of this plugin.

Why?

In GitLab 14.0, creating a release using the Tags API has been removed (see #290311). This plugin was updated to use the Releases API instead in #184, which is available in version 6.0.7 and beyond.

semantic-release/gitlab