Draft your next release notes as pull requests are merged into master with Release Drafter

Now this looks handy: a GitHub action that builds release notes for you:

As pull requests are merged, a draft release is kept up-to-date listing the changes, ready to publish when you’re ready

You configure the release notes contents using a .github/release-drafter.yml file in your repo:

template: |
  ## What’s Changed

  $CHANGES

More advanced templates are also possible:

name-template: 'v$NEXT_PATCH_VERSION 🌈'
tag-template: 'v$NEXT_PATCH_VERSION'
categories:
  - title: '🚀 Features'
    labels:
      - 'feature'
      - 'enhancement'
  - title: '🐛 Bug Fixes'
    labels:
      - 'fix'
      - 'bugfix'
      - 'bug'
  - title: '🧰 Maintenance'
    label: 'chore'
change-template: '- $TITLE @$AUTHOR (#$NUMBER)'
template: |
  ## Changes

  $CHANGES

The template above yields this kind of result:

Nice!

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