Updaters

There are different updater for different purposes available.

They each have a name and may be enabled by default. You can configure which updaters are used through the updaters input on GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD. This is a comma-delimited list of updaters that should be enabled, for updaters that are enabled by default you can remove them by adding a minus before its name:

updaters: -generic,packagejson

Changelog

• Name: changelog
• Default: enabled

This updater creates the CHANGELOG.md file and adds new release notes to it.

Generic Updater

• Name: generic
• Default: enabled

This updater can update any file and only needs a marker on the line. It is enabled by default.

Learn more about this updater in "Updating arbitrary files".

Node.js package.json Updater

• Name: packagejson
• Default: disabled

This updater can update the version field in Node.js package.json files. The updater is disabled by default.