@semantic-release/gitlab

semantic-release plugin to publish a GitLab release.

Step	Description
verifyConditions	Verify the presence and the validity of the authentication (set via environment variables).
publish	Publish a GitLab release.
success	Add a comment to each GitLab Issue or Merge Request resolved by the release.
fail	Open or update a GitLab Issue with information about the errors that caused the release to fail.

Install

1$ npm install @semantic-release/gitlab -D

Usage

The plugin can be configured in the semantic-release configuration file:

1{
2  "branches": ["main"],
3  "plugins": [
4    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
5    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
6    [
7      "@semantic-release/gitlab",
8      {
9        "gitlabUrl": "https://custom.gitlab.com",
10        "assets": [
11          { "path": "dist/asset.min.css", "label": "CSS distribution" },
12          { "path": "dist/asset.min.js", "label": "JS distribution", "target": "generic_package" },
13          { "path": "dist/asset.min.js", "label": "v${nextRelease.version}.js" },
14          { "url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/README.md", "label": "README.md" }
15        ]
16      }
17    ]
18  ]
19}

With this example GitLab releases will be published to the https://custom.gitlab.com instance.

Configuration

GitLab authentication

The GitLab authentication configuration is required and can be set via environment variables.

Create a project access token, group access token, or personal access token with role Developer (or higher) and the api scope and make it available in your CI environment via the GL_TOKEN environment variable. If you are using GL_TOKEN as the remote Git repository authentication it must also have the write_repository scope.

Note: When running with dryRun only read_repository scope is required.

Environment variables

Variable	Description
GL_TOKEN or GITLAB_TOKEN	Required. The token used to authenticate with GitLab.
GL_URL or GITLAB_URL	The GitLab endpoint.
GL_PREFIX or GITLAB_PREFIX	The GitLab API prefix.
HTTP_PROXY or HTTPS_PROXY	HTTP or HTTPS proxy to use.
NO_PROXY	Patterns for which the proxy should be ignored. See details below.

Proxy configuration

The plugin supports passing requests through a proxy server.

You can configure a proxy server via the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable: HTTPS_PROXY=http://proxyurl.com:8080

If your proxy server requires authentication embed the username and password in the URL: HTTPS_PROXY=http://user:pwd@proxyurl.com:8080

If your GitLab instance is exposed via plain HTTP (not recommended!) use HTTP_PROXY instead.

If you need to bypass the proxy for some hosts, configure the NO_PROXY environment variable: NO_PROXY=*.host.com, host.com

Options

Option	Description	Default
gitlabUrl	The GitLab endpoint.	GL_URL or GITLAB_URL environment variable or CI provided environment variables if running on GitLab CI/CD or https://gitlab.com.
gitlabApiPathPrefix	The GitLab API prefix.	GL_PREFIX or GITLAB_PREFIX environment variable or CI provided environment variables if running on GitLab CI/CD or /api/v4.
assets	An array of files to upload to the release. See assets.	-
milestones	An array of milestone titles to associate to the release. See GitLab Release API.	-
successComment	The comment to add to each Issue and Merge Request resolved by the release. See successComment.	:tada: This issue has been resolved in version ${nextRelease.version} :tada:\n\nThe release is available on GitLab release
successCommentCondition	Use this as condition, when to comment on issues or merge requests. See successCommentCondition.	-
failComment	The content of the issue created when a release fails. See failComment.	Friendly message with links to semantic-release documentation and support, with the list of errors that caused the release to fail.
failTitle	The title of the issue created when a release fails.	The automated release is failing 🚨
failCommentCondition	Use this as condition, when to comment on or create an issues in case of failures. See failCommentCondition.	-
labels	The labels to add to the issue created when a release fails. Set to false to not add any label. Labels should be comma-separated as described in the official docs, e.g. "semantic-release,bot".	semantic-release
assignee	The assignee to add to the issue created when a release fails.	-
retryLimit	The maximum number of retries for failing HTTP requests.	3

assets

Can be a glob or and Array of globs and Objects with the following properties:

Property	Description	Default
path	Required, unless url is set. A glob to identify the files to upload. Supports Lodash templating.	-
url	Alternative to setting path this provides the ability to add links to releases, e.g. URLs to container images. Supports Lodash templating.	-
label	Short description of the file displayed on the GitLab release. Ignored if path matches more than one file. Supports Lodash templating.	File name extracted from the path.
type	Asset type displayed on the GitLab release. Can be runbook, package, image and other (see official documents on release assets). Supports Lodash templating.	other
filepath	A filepath for creating a permalink pointing to the asset (requires GitLab 12.9+, see official documents on permanent links). Ignored if path matches more than one file. Supports Lodash templating.	-
target	Controls where the file is uploaded to. Can be set to project_upload for storing the file as project upload or generic_package for storing the file as generic package.	project_upload
status	This is only applied, if target is set to generic_package. The generic package status. Can be default and hidden (see official documents on generic packages).	default

Each entry in the assets Array is globbed individually. A glob can be a String ("dist/**/*.js" or "dist/mylib.js") or an Array of Strings that will be globbed together (["dist/**", "!**/*.css"]).

If a directory is configured, all the files under this directory and its children will be included.

Note: If a file has a match in assets it will be included even if it also has a match in .gitignore.

assets examples

'dist/*.js': include all the js files in the dist directory, but not in its sub-directories.

[['dist', '!**/*.css']]: include all the files in the dist directory and its sub-directories excluding the css files.

[{path: 'dist/MyLibrary.js', label: 'MyLibrary JS distribution'}, {path: 'dist/MyLibrary.css', label: 'MyLibrary CSS distribution'}]: include the dist/MyLibrary.js and dist/MyLibrary.css files, and label them MyLibrary JS distribution and MyLibrary CSS distribution in the GitLab release.

[['dist/**/*.{js,css}', '!**/*.min.*'], {path: 'build/MyLibrary.zip', label: 'MyLibrary'}]: include all the js and css files in the dist directory and its sub-directories excluding the minified version, plus the build/MyLibrary.zip file and label it MyLibrary in the GitLab release.

successComment

The message for the issue comments is generated with Lodash template. The following variables are available:

Parameter	Description
branch	Object with name, type, channel, range and prerelease properties of the branch from which the release is done.
lastRelease	Object with version, channel, gitTag and gitHead of the last release.
nextRelease	Object with version, channel, gitTag, gitHead and notes of the release being done.
commits	Array of commit Objects with hash, subject, body message and author.
releases	Array with a release Objects for each release published, with optional release data such as name and url.
issue	A GitLab API Issue object the comment will be posted to, or false when commenting Merge Requests.
mergeRequest	A GitLab API Merge Request object the comment will be posted to, or false when commenting Issues.

successCommentCondition

The success comment condition is generated with Lodash template. The following variables are available:

Parameter	Description
branch	Object with name, type, channel, range and prerelease properties of the branch from which the release is done.
lastRelease	Object with version, channel, gitTag and gitHead of the last release.
nextRelease	Object with version, channel, gitTag, gitHead and notes of the release being done.
commits	Array of commit Objects with hash, subject, body message and author.
releases	Array with a release Objects for each release published, with optional release data such as name and url.
issue	A GitLab API Issue object the comment will be posted to.
mergeRequest	A GitLab API Merge Request object the comment will be posted to.

successCommentCondition example

• do not create any comments at all: set to false or templating: "<% return false; %>"
• to only comment on issues: "<% return issue %>"
• to only comment on merge requests: "<% return mergeRequest %>"
• you can use labels to filter issues: "<% return issue.labels?.includes('semantic-release-relevant') %>"

check the GitLab API Merge Request object or the GitLab API Issue object for properties which can be used for the filter

failComment

The message for the issue content is generated with Lodash template. The following variables are available:

Parameter	Description
branch	The branch from which the release had failed.
errors	An Array of SemanticReleaseError. Each error has the message, code, pluginName and details properties. pluginName contains the package name of the plugin that threw the error. details contains a information about the error formatted in markdown.

failComment example

The failComment This release from branch ${branch.name} had failed due to the following errors:\n- ${errors.map(err => err.message).join('\\n- ')} will generate the comment:

This release from branch master had failed due to the following errors:

• Error message 1
• Error message 2

failCommentCondition

The fail comment condition is generated with Lodash template. The following variables are available:

Parameter	Description
branch	Object with name, type, channel, range and prerelease properties of the branch from which the release is done.
lastRelease	Object with version, channel, gitTag and gitHead of the last release.
nextRelease	Object with version, channel, gitTag, gitHead and notes of the release being done.
commits	Array of commit Objects with hash, subject, body message and author.
releases	Array with a release Objects for each release published, with optional release data such as name and url.
issue	A GitLab API Issue object the comment will be posted to - only available if an open issue exists.

failCommentCondition example

• do not create any comments at all: set to false or templating: "<% return false; %>"
• to only comment on main branch: "<% return branch.name === 'main' %>"
• you can use labels to filter issues, i.e. to not comment if the issue is labeled with wip: "<% return !issue.labels?.includes('wip') %>"

check the GitLab API Issue object for properties which can be used for the filter

Compatibility

The latest version of this plugin is compatible with all currently-supported versions of GitLab, which is the current major version and previous two major versions. This plugin is not guaranteed to work with unsupported versions of GitLab.

Breaking changes in 14.0

If you are using GitLab.com or have upgraded your self-hosted GitLab instance to 14.0, please use version >=6.0.7 of this plugin.

Why?

In GitLab 14.0, creating a release using the Tags API has been removed (see #290311). This plugin was updated to use the Releases API instead in https://github.com/semantic-release/gitlab/pull/184, which is available in version 6.0.7 and beyond.