Migrating from Python Semantic Release v7¶
Python Semantic Release 8.0.0 introduced a number of breaking changes. The internals have been changed significantly to better support highly-requested features and to streamline the maintenance of the project.
As a result, certain things have been removed, reimplemented differently, or now
exhibit different behaviour to earlier versions of Python Semantic Release. This
page is a guide to help projects to pip install python-semantic-release>=8.0.0
with
fewer surprises.
Python Semantic Release GitHub Action¶
GitHub Action no longer publishes artefacts to PyPI or GitHub Releases¶
Python Semantic Release no longer uploads distributions to PyPI - see Repurposing of version and publish commands. If you are using Python Semantic Release to publish release notes and artefacts to GitHub releases, there is a new GitHub Action upload-to-gh-release which will perform this action for you.
This means the following workflows perform the same actions, and if you are using the former, you will need to modify your workflow to include the steps in the latter.
This workflow is written to use Python Semantic Release v7.33.5:
---
name: Semantic Release
on:
push:
branches:
- main
jobs:
release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
concurrency: release
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
fetch-depth: 0
# This action uses Python Semantic Release v7
- name: Python Semantic Release
uses: python-semantic-release/python-semantic-release@v7.33.5
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
repository_username: __token__
repository_password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }}
The following workflow achieves the same result using Python Semantic Release v8, the upload-to-gh-release GitHub Action, and the pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish GitHub Action:
---
name: Semantic Release
on:
push:
branches:
- master
jobs:
release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
concurrency: release
permissions:
id-token: write
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
fetch-depth: 0
# This action uses Python Semantic Release v8
- name: Python Semantic Release
id: release
uses: python-semantic-release/python-semantic-release@v8.0.0
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Publish package distributions to PyPI
uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
# NOTE: DO NOT wrap the conditional in ${{ }} as it will always evaluate to true.
# See https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1173
if: steps.release.outputs.released == 'true'
- name: Publish package distributions to GitHub Releases
uses: python-semantic-release/upload-to-gh-release@main
if: steps.release.outputs.released == 'true'
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
Removal of pypi_token
, repository_username
and repository_password
inputs¶
Since the library no longer supports publishing to PyPI, the pypi_token
,
repository_username
and repository_password
inputs of the GitHub action have
all been removed. See the above section for how to publish to PyPI using the official
GitHub Action from the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).
Rename additional_options
to root_options
¶
Because the purposes of the semantic-release version and semantic-release publish commands
have changed, the GitHub action now performs both commands in sequence. For this
reason, and because the usage of the CLI has changed, additional_options
has
been renamed to root_options
to reflect the fact that the options are for the
main semantic-release command group.
Commands¶
Repurposing of version
and publish
commands¶
Python Semantic Release’s primary purpose is to enable automation of correct semantic versioning for software projects. Over the years, this automation has been extended to include other actions such as building/publishing the project and its artefacts to artefact repositories, creating releases in remote version control systems, and writing changelogs.
In Python Semantic Release <8.0.0, the publish
command was a one-stop-shop for
performing every piece of automation provided. This has been changed - the version
command now handles determining the next version, applying the changes to the project
metadata according to the configuration, writing a changelog, and committing/pushing
changes to the remote Git repository. It also handles creating a release in the remote
VCS. It does not publish software artefacts to remote repositories such as PyPI;
the rationale behind this decision is simply that under the hood, Python Semantic Release
used twine to upload artefacts to package indexes such as PyPI, and it’s recommended
to use twine directly via the command-line. From the twine
documentation:
Twine is a command-line tool for interacting with PyPI securely over HTTPS.
As a result Python Semantic Release no longer depends on twine internals.
The publish
command now handles publishing software artefacts to releases in the
remote version control system.
To achieve a similar flow of logic such as
Determine the next version
Write this version to the configured metadata locations
Write the changelog
Push the changes to the metadata and changelog to the remote repository
Create a release in the remote version control system
Build a wheel
Publish the wheel to PyPI
Publish the distribution artifacts to the release in the remote VCS
You should run:
semantic-release version
twine upload dist/* # or whichever path your distributions are placed in
semantic-release publish
With steps 1-6 being handled by the semantic-release version command, step 7 being left to the developer to handle, and lastly step 8 to be handled by the semantic-release publish command.
Removal of -D/--define
command-line option¶
It is no longer possible to override arbitrary configuration values using the -D
/
--define
option. You should provide the appropriate values via a configuration
file using -c/--config [FILE] or via the available command-line options.
This simplifies the command-line option parsing significantly and is less error-prone, which has resulted in previous issues (e.g. #600) with overrides on the command-line. Some of the configuration values expected by Python Semantic Release use complex data types such as lists or nested structures, which would be tedious and error-prone to specify using just command-line options.
Removal of CI verifications¶
Prior to v8, Python Semantic Release would perform some prerequisite verification
of environment variables before performing any version changes using the publish
command. It’s not feasible for Python Semantic Release to verify any possible CI
environment fully, and these checks were only triggered if certain environment
variables were set - they wouldn’t fail locally.
These checks previously raised :py:class:semantic_release.CiVerificationError
, and
were the only place in which this custom exception was used. Therefore, this exception
has also been removed from Python Semantic Release in v8.
If you were relying on this functionality, it’s recommended that you add the following
shell commands before invoking semantic-release
to verify your environment:
Note
In the following, $RELEASE_BRANCH refers to the git branch against which you run your
releases using Python Semantic Release. You will need to ensure it is set properly
(e.g. via export RELEASE_BRANCH=main
and/or replace the variable with the branch
name you want to verify the CI environment for.
Travis¶
Condition: environment variable TRAVIS=true
Replacement:
if ! [[
$TRAVIS_BRANCH == $RELEASE_BRANCH && \
$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST == 'false'
]]; then
exit 1
fi
Semaphore¶
Condition: environment variable SEMAPHORE=true
Replacement:
if ! [[
$BRANCH_NAME == $RELEASE_BRANCH && \
$SEMAPHORE_THREAD_RESULT != 'failed' && \
-n $PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER
]]; then
exit 1
fi
Frigg¶
Condition: environment variable FRIGG=true
Replacement:
if ! [[
$FRIGG_BUILD_BRANCH == $RELEASE_BRANCH && \
-n $FRIGG_PULL_REQUEST
]]; then
exit 1
fi
Circle CI¶
Condition: environment variable CIRCLECI=true
Replacement:
if ! [[
$CIRCLE_BRANCH == $RELEASE_BRANCH && \
-n $CI_PULL_REQUEST
]]; then
exit 1
fi
GitLab CI¶
Condition: environment variable GITLAB_CI=true
Replacement:
if ! [[ $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == $RELEASE_BRANCH ]]; then
exit 1
fi
Condition: environment variable BITBUCKET_BUILD_NUMBER
is set
Replacement:
if ! [[
$BITBUCKET_BRANCH == $RELEASE_BRANCH && \
-n $BITBUCKET_PR_ID
]]; then
exit 1
fi
Jenkins¶
Condition: environment variable JENKINS_URL
is set
Replacement:
if [[ -z $BRANCH_NAME ]]; then
BRANCH_NAME=$BRANCH_NAME
elif [[ -z $GIT_BRANCH ]]; then
BRANCH_NAME=$GIT_BRANCH
fi
if ! [[
$BRANCH_NAME == $RELEASE_BRANCH && \
-n $CHANGE_ID
]]; then
exit 1
fi
Removal of Build Status Checking¶
Prior to v8, Python Semantic Release contained a configuration option,
check_build_status
, which would attempt to prevent a release being made
if it was possible to identify that a corresponding build pipeline was failing.
For similar reasons to those motivating the removal of
CI Checks, this feature has also been removed.
If you are leveraging this feature in Python Semantic Release v7, the following
bash commands will replace the functionality, and you can add these to your pipeline.
You will need to install jq
and curl
to run these commands; they can be easily
installed through your system’s package manager, for example on Ubuntu:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install -y curl jq
On Windows, you can refer to the installation guide for jq, and if curl
is not already
installed, you can download it from the curl website
GitHub¶
export RESP="$(
curl \
-H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
-fSsL https://$GITHUB_API_DOMAIN/repos/$REPO_OWNER/$REPO_NAME/commits/$(git rev-parse HEAD)/status || exit 1
)"
if [ $(jq -r '.state' <<< "$RESP") != "success" ]; then
echo "Build status is not success" >&2
exit 1
fi
Note that $GITHUB_API_DOMAIN
is typically api.github.com
unless you are using
GitHub Enterprise with a custom domain name.
Gitea¶
export RESP="$(
curl \
-H "Authorization: token $GITEA_TOKEN" \
-fSsL https://$GITEA_DOMAIN/repos/$REPO_OWNER/$REPO_NAME/statuses/$(git rev-parse HEAD) || exit 1
)"
if [ $(jq -r '.state' <<< "$RESP") != "success" ]; then
echo "Build status is not success" >&2
exit 1
fi
Gitlab¶
export RESP="$(
curl \
-H "Authorization: token $GITLAB_TOKEN" \
-fSsL https://$GITLAB_DOMAIN/api/v4/projects/$PROJECT_ID/repository/commits/$(git rev-parse HEAD)/statuses
)"
for line in $(jq -r '.[] | [.name, .status, .allow_failure] | join("|")' <<<"$RESP"); do
IFS="|" read -r job_name job_status allow_failure <<<"$line"
if [ "$job_status" == "pending" ]; then
echo "job $job_name is pending" >&2
exit 1
elif [ "$job_status" == "failed" ] && [ ! "$allow_failure" == "true" ]; then
echo "job $job_name failed" >&2
exit 1
fi
done
Multibranch releases¶
Prior to v8, Python Semantic Release would perform git checkout
to switch to your
configured release branch and determine if a release would need to be made. In v8 this
has been changed - you must manually check out the branch which you would like to release
against, and if you would like to create releases against this branch you must also ensure
that it belongs to a release group.
changelog
command¶
A new option, --post-to-release-tag [TAG] has been added. If you
omit this argument on the command line then the changelog rendering process, which is
described in more detail at Template Rendering, will be
triggered, but the new changelog will not be posted to any release.
If you use this new command-line option, it should be set to a tag within the remote
which has a corresponding release.
For example, to update the changelog and post it to the release corresponding to the
tag v1.1.4
, you should run:
semantic-release changelog --post-to-release-tag v1.1.4
Changelog customisation¶
A number of options relevant to customising the changelog have been removed. This is because Python Semantic Release now supports authoring a completely custom Jinja template with the contents of your changelog. Historically, the number of options added to Python Semantic Release in order to allow this customisation has grown significantly; it now uses templates in order to fully open up customising the changelog’s appearance.
Configuration¶
The configuration structure has been completely reworked, so you should read Configuration carefully during the process of upgrading to v8+. However, some common pitfalls and potential sources of confusion are summarised here.
setup.cfg
is no longer supported¶
Python Semantic Release no longer supports configuration via setup.cfg
. This is
because the Python ecosystem is centering around pyproject.toml
as universal tool
and project configuration file, and TOML allows expressions via configuration, such as
the mechanism for declaring configuration via environment variables, which introduce
much greater complexity to support in the otherwise equivalent ini
-format
configuration.
You can use semantic-release generate-config to generate new-format configuration that can
be added to pyproject.toml
, and adjust the default settings according to your
needs.
Warning
If you don’t already have a pyproject.toml
configuration file, pip
can
change its behaviour once you add one, as a result of PEP-517. If you find
that this breaks your packaging, you can add your Python Semantic Release
configuration to a separate file such as semantic-release.toml
, and use
the –config option to reference this alternative
configuration file.
More detail about this issue can be found in this pip issue.
Commit parser options¶
Options such as major_emoji
, parser_angular_patch_types
or
parser_angular_default_level_bump
have been removed. Instead, these have been
replaced with a single set of recognised commit parser options, allowed_tags
,
major_tags
, minor_tags
, and patch_tags
, though the interpretation of
these is up to the specific parsers in use. You can read more detail about using
commit parser options in commit_parser_options,
and if you need to parse multiple commit styles for a single project it’s recommended
that you create a parser following Writing your own parser that
is tailored to the specific needs of your project.
version_variable
¶
This option has been renamed to version_variables as it refers to a list of variables which can be updated.
version_pattern
¶
This option has been removed. It’s recommended to use an alternative tool to perform
substitution using arbitrary regular expressions, such as sed
.
You can always use Python Semantic Release to identify the next version to be created
for a project and store this in an environment variable like so:
export VERSION=$(semantic-release version --print)
version_toml
¶
This option will no longer accept a string or comma-separated string of version
locations to be updated in TOML files. Instead, you must supply a List[str]
.
For existing configurations using a single location in this option, you can
simply wrap the value in []
:
# Python Semantic Release v7 configuration
[tool.semantic_release]
version_toml = "pyproject.toml:tool.poetry.version"
# Python Semantic Release v8 configuration
[tool.semantic_release]
version_toml = ["pyproject.toml:tool.poetry.version"]
tag_format
¶
This option has the same effect as it did in Python Semantic Release prior to v8,
but Python Semantic Release will now verify that it has a {version}
format
key and raise an error if this is not the case.
upload_to_release
¶
This option has been renamed to upload_to_vcs_release.
Custom Commit Parsers¶
Previously, a custom commit parser had to satisfy the following criteria:
It should be
import
-able from the virtual environment where thesemantic-release
is runIt should be a function which accepts the commit message as its only argument and returns a
semantic_release.history.parser_helpers.ParsedCommit
if the commit is parsed successfully, or raise asemantic_release.UnknownCommitMessageStyleError
if parsing is unsuccessful.
It is still possible to implement custom commit parsers, but the interface for doing so has been modified with stronger support for Python type annotations and broader input provided to the parser to enable capturing more information from each commit, such as the commit’s date and author, if desired. A full guide to implementing a custom commit parser can be found at Writing your own parser.