release-notes in postupgrade templates

[JensAc]

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34.141.0

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github.com

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GitHub

Was this something which used to work for you, and then stopped?

I never saw this working

Wanted end result.

Hi there 👋 ,
I want to append the release notes which are included in the PR to an existing file in order to keep track of all changelogs.

What you tried so far.

I have prepared a minimal working example here and the open PR contains release notes. I have

"postUpgradeTasks": {
    "commands": ["./hack/export-renovate-releasenotes.sh {{{depName}}} {{{currentVersion}}} {{{newVersion}}} {{{body}}} >> release-notes/next.md"],
    "fileFilters": ["release-notes/next.md"],
    "executionMode": "update"
  }

in my renovate config and would expect that the release notes are provided to my scrip as the {{{body}}} argument, as explained in the renovate documentation. However, as you can see in the PR, there are no release notes in relase-notes/next.md and renovate calls the postUgradetask like so:

DEBUG: Executing command (repository=jensac/renovate-mwe, baseBranch=main, branch=renovate/fluxcd-flux2-0.x)
       "dep": "fluxcd/flux2",
       "command": "./hack/export-renovate-releasenotes.sh fluxcd/flux2 v0.38.2 v0.39.0  >> release-notes/next.md"

which obviously misses the release notes. Is this behavior intended? Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? I would really appreciate any kind of help.

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[rarkins]

@viceice is it possible that the notes aren't fetched yet due to the "lazy" fetching which would wait until the ensurePr function?

[viceice]

sounds good

[viceice]

so make fetchReleaseNotes an enum with values off, 'branchorpr` ?

[rarkins]

Yes

[viceice]

@HonkingGoose can you please open a feature request?

[HonkingGoose]

Here's your feature request: 😉

• Configure when release notes are fetched, defaulting to latest/laziest #20476