goreleaser/goreleaser

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15998 stars · 1098 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

GoReleaser is a release engineering CLI tool that builds, packages, signs, and publishes software releases across many languages (Go, Rust, Zig, TypeScript, Python, and more). It automates creating archives, installers, Docker images, SBOMs, changelogs, and publishing to GitHub/GitLab/Gitea, Homebrew, NPM, AUR, and many other channels.

Use cases

• automate releasing my Go binary to GitHub Releases
• build and publish Homebrew formula and AUR package on tag
• create cross-platform binaries and archives for a release
• sign and notarize release artifacts with cosign
• publish Docker images and generate SBOMs in CI
• generate changelogs and announce releases to Slack or Discord
• set up release automation in GitHub Actions

When to choose

• you want a single declarative config for the whole release pipeline
• you publish to multiple channels (SCM releases, package managers, Docker, blob storage)
• you need signing, notarization, checksums, and SBOMs as part of releases
• you use GitHub Actions or another CI and want reproducible, automated releases

When to avoid

• you only need simple CI builds without packaging or publishing
• your project is a library distributed solely through one language package manager with no binaries
• you need a fully custom release pipeline that doesn't fit GoReleaser's declarative model

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

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