crate-ci/cargo-release

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1588 stars · 137 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

cargo-release is a Cargo subcommand that streamlines releasing Rust crates by extending `cargo publish` with validation, version bumping, tagging, and pushing. It supports Cargo workspaces, change detection, changelog updates, and customizable pre-release hooks, with a safe dry-run mode by default.

Use cases

• publish a rust crate to crates.io with version bump and git tag
• release all crates in a cargo workspace with dependent version updates
• automate changelog version updates before publishing
• validate a repo is clean and on the right branch before releasing
• dry-run a release to preview publish, tag, and push steps
• run custom pre-release hooks like changelog generation

When to choose

• you maintain Rust crates and want a repeatable release workflow
• you manage multi-crate workspaces needing coordinated version bumps
• you want validation, tagging, and pushing bundled with cargo publish

When to avoid

• you release non-Rust packages
• you want fully automated releases driven by CI from merged PRs (consider release-plz)
• you need to use it as a stable library dependency (API compatibility is not tracked)

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

build-tool developer-tools version-control ci-cd developer-tools version-control cli cross-platform rust cargo-subcommand rust release-automation publishing workspace-support semver automation command-line

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