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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release workflow now creates consistent release branches and tags. A shared action validates stable tags and branch ancestry. GitHub releases and Netlify production deployments use these checks. Maintenance documentation describes the updated release and patch procedures. ChangesRelease automation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The release automation can publish from an unintended tag and the patch-release runbook can omit fixes from earlier patches, creating incorrect releases or production documentation updates; these issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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Releasing needed three manual actions: dispatch bump-version, dispatch netlify-deploy, then hand-tag master. Now bump-version pushes vX.Y.Z at the end of the bump job, and that one tag event triggers build-release and netlify-deploy in parallel. The tag is pushed from the bump job itself rather than the commented-out trigger-release job, which would have tagged the pre-bump commit: its fresh checkout resolves to master as of dispatch time. The push must also carry TOKEN_GITHUB_YENKINS_ADMIN, already used for the master push, because GitHub does not trigger workflows from GITHUB_TOKEN pushes -- the likely reason that job was left disabled. Release branches are now rel/X.Y.Z for every bump type. The old patch/X.Y.Z naming was the repository's only reference to patch/, and it hid patch releases from both the pre-merge pipeline and the docs build, which key off rel/** and rel/* respectively. Adds an is-latest-release guard consumed by both downstream workflows. Without it, tagging a patch of an older line would deploy that tag's documentation over the current site and take the "Latest" badge from the newest release. Documents the previously unwritten procedure for patching an already released version in MAINTENANCE.md, including why bump-version must not be used for it. Also quotes $GITHUB_OUTPUT in the bump step, clearing the file's last shellcheck warning.
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In @.github/actions/is-latest-release/action.yaml:
- Line 33: Update the tag-selection logic assigning highest to include only
stable tags matching ^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$, excluding prerelease suffixes
before sorting. Also validate TAG against the same format and return false when
it does not match.
In @.github/workflows/build-release.yaml:
- Around line 101-103: Recheck the latest tag immediately before release side
effects: in .github/workflows/build-release.yaml:101-103, serialize release
metadata updates and refresh the value used by make_latest; in
.github/workflows/netlify-deploy.yaml:29-30, serialize production deployments
and refresh the latest-tag condition immediately before netlify deploy --prod.
In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-release-automation-design.md`:
- Line 53: Use rel/X.Y.Z consistently in the release automation design: at
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-release-automation-design.md lines 53-53,
remove “or patch/X.Y.Z”; at lines 135-136, replace the patch branch name with
rel/X.Y.Z.
- Line 47: Specify the code fence language as text in the release automation
design document to resolve the MD040 warning.
In `@MAINTENANCE.md`:
- Around line 43-44: Update the release-version guidance in the maintenance
instructions so the patch component increments from the selected newest base
branch; when the base is rel/1.60.2, use 1.60.3. Apply the resulting version
consistently to the related commands and examples.
- Line 87: Clarify the documentation statement about patched lines replacing
existing sections: explain that rel/1.72.1 replaces the 1.72 section only during
a later latest-tag deployment, or document the supported manual rebuild process
when is-latest-release causes the patch release to skip netlify-deploy.
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invalid_tags="$(git tag -l 'v*.*.*' | grep -Ev '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$' || true)"
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Filter the tag list to stable release tags.
git tag -l 'v*.*.*' also matches tags such as v999.0.0-test. sort -V can select that tag as $highest, which marks a valid stable release as non-latest. Restrict candidates to ^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ and return false when TAG does not match this format.
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In @.github/actions/is-latest-release/action.yaml at line 33, Update the
tag-selection logic assigning highest to include only stable tags matching
^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$, excluding prerelease suffixes before sorting. Also
validate TAG against the same format and return false when it does not match.
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Specify a language for this code fence.
Use text on this fence to remove the reported MD040 warning.
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In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-release-automation-design.md` at line 47,
Specify the code fence language as text in the release automation design
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| bump version, commit "Release X.Y.Z" | ||
| push rel/X.Y.Z (or patch/X.Y.Z) |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use rel/X.Y.Z consistently in the design document.
The document says all release branches use rel/X.Y.Z, but these locations still instruct operators to use patch/X.Y.Z. That branch is not included by the rel/* documentation discovery contract.
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-release-automation-design.md#L53-L53: removeor patch/X.Y.Zfrom the release flow.docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-release-automation-design.md#L135-L136: change the patch branch name torel/X.Y.Z.
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In `@docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-release-automation-design.md` at line 53,
Use rel/X.Y.Z consistently in the release automation design: at
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-20-release-automation-design.md lines 53-53,
remove “or patch/X.Y.Z”; at lines 135-136, replace the patch branch name with
rel/X.Y.Z.
Code review found that "is this the highest version" is the wrong question for the documentation deploy. Patching the newest line produces the highest tag, so the old guard let it through -- but its tree is a release branch plus a fix, behind master. The hugo action checks out the triggering tag, so that --prod deploy would have reverted every documentation change merged since that release. Splits the guard into the two questions the workflows actually ask. is_latest still controls the "Latest" badge, where version order is the right predicate. is_on_master, an ancestry check against the default branch, controls the docs deploy: releases are tagged on master, while a patch is branched from a release branch and never merged back. The action is renamed release-tag-checks to match. Also documents a limit the guards cannot cover: a tag runs the workflows as they exist at that tag, so release lines branched before this change run their own older copies, in which make_latest is hardcoded true. MAINTENANCE.md claimed the badge was handled for exactly such a line, and now says to cherry-pick the workflow first. Drops the bump-version job outputs left unused by the deleted trigger-release job, adds contents: read to the new jobs, matches the runbook's commit to the workflow's git add -A, and notes on the draft netlify-deploy-v2 that it must bring the gate along when it takes over.
Drops an explicit git fetch of the default branch: actions/checkout with fetch-depth: 0 uses the all-history refspec, so origin/<default> is already a local ref and FETCH_HEAD was an indirection in the expression deciding the docs deploy. Removes an unreachable guard. It tested for an empty tag list to catch a shallow checkout, but a tag push always fetches its own tag, so the branch could never be taken. A shallow checkout is still caught -- the ancestry check fails loudly on one, rather than answering either question wrongly. The rest is prose. The same rationale had been written five times in five wordings; the action's description is the copy that earns its place, and the workflow-side comments now state their own stake and point at it. The runbook's bump commands now say which workflow steps they mirror, so the duplication is at least discoverable.
From CodeRabbit review of the PR. The trigger glob v*.*.* also matches tags like v0.0.1-test, which sort -V could pick as the highest -- marking every real release from then on as not-latest. All 80 tags conform today, but the recommended smoke test for this change is to push exactly such a throwaway tag. Filters to stable vX.Y.Z, guarding the grep against pipefail so an empty result is decided rather than fatal. The runbook said the new version is 1.60.1 while also saying the base may be rel/1.60.2, which would have produced an existing or lower version. It now increments from the chosen base. It also claimed a patch replaces its docs section, which the is_on_master gate prevents: the replacement lands at the next deploy from master, or a manual dispatch.
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In @.github/actions/release-tag-checks/action.yaml:
- Line 51: Update the release-tag validation in the action so tags that do not
exactly match the stable vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format, including prerelease tags
such as v1.2.3-rc1, cause the action to fail before release workflows continue;
preserve the existing stable-tag ordering logic for valid tags.
In `@MAINTENANCE.md`:
- Line 50: Update the branch-creation command in the maintenance instructions to
derive the new release branch from the latest selected base patch, so a base of
rel/1.60.2 creates rel/1.60.3 from <remote>/rel/1.60.2 instead of retaining
fixed rel/1.60.0 references.
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| # like v0.0.1-test, which sort -V could pick as the highest -- marking every real | ||
| # release from then on as not-latest. A non-stable TAG never equals a stable | ||
| # $highest, so it correctly comes out as not-latest without a separate check. | ||
| highest=$(git tag -l 'v*.*.*' | { grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$' || true; } | sort -V | tail -n 1) |
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Reject non-stable tags before release workflows continue.
v*.*.* also matches tags such as v1.2.3-rc1. This code marks such a tag as not latest but exits successfully. github_release can then create a non-prerelease GitHub release, and a tag on master can deploy documentation to production.
Fail this action for tag names that do not match the stable version format, or expose an is_stable output and require it in both release jobs.
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+ if ! [[ "$TAG" =~ ^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+ echo "Expected a stable vX.Y.Z tag, got '$TAG'." >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
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In @.github/actions/release-tag-checks/action.yaml at line 51, Update the
release-tag validation in the action so tags that do not exactly match the
stable vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format, including prerelease tags such as v1.2.3-rc1,
cause the action to fail before release workflows continue; preserve the
existing stable-tag ordering logic for valid tags.
| 2. **Create the release branch first**, so the fix has somewhere to be reviewed into: | ||
| ```bash | ||
| git fetch <remote> | ||
| git checkout -b rel/1.60.1 <remote>/rel/1.60.0 |
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Branch repeated patches from the selected base.
When the newest base is rel/1.60.2, Line 50 must create rel/1.60.3 from <remote>/rel/1.60.2. The current command remains fixed to <remote>/rel/1.60.0, so it can omit fixes already released in earlier patches.
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- git checkout -b rel/1.60.1 <remote>/rel/1.60.0
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selected base patch, so a base of rel/1.60.2 creates rel/1.60.3 from
<remote>/rel/1.60.2 instead of retaining fixed rel/1.60.0 references.
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Releasing currently takes three manual actions: dispatch
bump-version, dispatchnetlify-deployand wait ~15 minutes, then check out master and push the tag by hand. Steps two and three are easy to forget or to run against the wrong commit.Now one dispatch of Bump version & trigger release does the whole thing. The bump job pushes
vX.Y.Zat the end, and that single tag event triggersbuild-releaseandnetlify-deployin parallel — packages reach PyPI in a few minutes, docs follow.Why the tag is pushed from the bump job
bump-version.yamlalready contained a commented-outtrigger-releasejob for this. It was never enabled, and as written it would not have worked:actions/checkout@v5has noref, which on aworkflow_dispatchrun resolves to master as of dispatch time — the commit before the bump. It would have tagged the old version.GITHUB_TOKENtriggers no workflows at all, so the release would have stalled silently. This is the likely reason the job was left disabled.Pushing the tag from the end of the existing bump job avoids both: the working copy is already at the merged master commit, and the checkout already uses
TOKEN_GITHUB_YENKINS_ADMINbecause it needs it to push to protected master.Release branches are now
rel/X.Y.Zfor every bump typepatch/X.Y.Zwas the repository's only reference topatch/, and it actively hurt:pre-merge.yamltriggers onrel/**and the docs build enumeratesrel/*, so patch releases were invisible to both. A PR into apatch/branch got no CI at all. Renaming also collapses theSpecify release branchstep.The
is-latest-releaseguardAdding a tag trigger to the docs deploy has a sharp edge:
hugo-build-versioned-actiondoes its owncheckout@v5with noref, so taggingv1.60.1today would builddocs/content/enfrom 1.60-era content andnetlify deploy --prodit over the current site. The same tag would also take the "Latest" badge from 1.73.0 via the hardcodedmake_latest: true.The new composite action compares the triggering tag against the highest
v*.*.*tag and gates both. Non-tag refs returntrue, so manual dispatch is unaffected.Patching an already released version
MAINTENANCE.mdgains a runbook for this, which had no documented procedure — the only two patches ever made (1.32.1, 1.32.2) predate the current tooling. It covers picking the base, cherry-picking from master through a PR that CI now actually runs on, bumping, and tagging. Only the tagging is automated; the rest is manual by nature.It also records why
bump-version.yamlmust not be used here: its finalgit checkout master && git mergewould drag old code and version numbers onto master. Itspatchbump type means "release master as a patch", not "patch the released line" — so this runbook applies to the newest line too whenever a release must exclude unreleased master work.The runbook also records two docs-site quirks left as-is rather than fixed:
generate.shwindows to the four newest branches sorted bymajor.minoronly, so a patch inside the window costs a displayed version, and a patch of an old line falls outside it entirely. The draftnetlify-deploy-v2.yamlalready handles both correctly viadiscover-versions.sh, so this resolves itself when v2 lands.Verification
actionlintis clean on all three workflows — the file previously had two shellcheck warnings, one removed with thepatch/step and the other fixed here. The guard's comparison was exercised against the repo's real 80 tags:v1.74.0,v1.73.1andv2.0.0resolve to latest;v1.60.1,v1.72.1andv1.9.1do not.Not verifiable before merge: the tag trigger only fires from the default branch, so the first real release is the end-to-end confirmation. Worth watching that one dispatch produces two downstream runs.
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