vercel/release

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

Release is a command-line tool by Vercel that automatically creates GitHub Releases populated with commits made since the last release. It supports SemVer version bumping (major, minor, patch) and pre-release suffixes, with customizable markdown output via a hook file.

Use cases

• generate a github release from recent commits
• create changelogs with a single command
• automate semver version bumping and tagging
• publish pre-release versions like canary or beta
• customize release notes with a hook script
• exclude certain commits from release notes

When to choose

• you want one-command GitHub Release creation from git commits
• you follow SemVer and want automated major/minor/patch bumps
• you need pre-release versioning with custom suffixes
• you want to predefine release types in commit messages

When to avoid

• you need fully automated CI/CD publishing to npm or other registries
• you want conventional-changelog-style categorized changelogs
• you don't host your code on GitHub
• you need monorepo-aware multi-package releases

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

cli developer-tools version-control documentation developer-tools version-control cli cross-platform github-releases changelog-generation semver npm-package release-automation command-line automation nodejs

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