release-plz/release-plz

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1458 stars · 188 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Release-plz is a Rust CLI and GitHub Action that automates releasing Rust crates: it generates changelogs with git-cliff, bumps versions based on Conventional Commits and semver-breaking changes, and opens a Release PR. Merging the PR triggers git tag creation, GitHub/Gitea/GitLab releases, and publishing to crates.io.

Use cases

• automate publishing rust crates to crates.io from ci
• generate changelogs from conventional commits
• bump crate versions automatically with a release pr
• detect semver breaking changes before releasing
• release rust workspaces with multiple packages
• create github releases and git tags on merge

When to choose

• you maintain Rust crates published to crates.io and want hands-off releases
• you want changelog and version bumps driven by conventional commits
• you prefer reviewing releases via a pull request before publishing
• you need semver-breaking-change detection via cargo-semver-checks

When to avoid

• you release non-Rust packages (use release-please or semantic-release instead)
• you want fully automatic publishing without a human-reviewed PR
• your project doesn't use git or conventional commit conventions

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

ci-cd deployment developer-tools developer-tools version-control cli windows rust release-automation changelog semver conventional-commits crates-io github-action release-pr automation linux macos docker

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