Calender Version

Dead simple GitHub action to calculate the next calendar based release version YYYY.M.build, e.g. 2024.1.17.

Good if you want to use calendar based versioning with other actions, such as:

• https://github.com/release-drafter/release-drafter
• https://github.com/elgohr/Github-Release-Action
• https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release#inputs

Example

name: Release Drafter

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, reopened, synchronize, edited]

jobs:
  update_release_draft:
    permissions:
      # write permission is required to create a github release
      contents: write
      # write permission is required for autolabeler
      pull-requests: write
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Calendar Version
        id: calendar-version
        uses: harm-matthias-harms/calendar-version@v0
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - uses: release-drafter/release-drafter@v6
        with:
          tag: ${{ steps.calendar-version.outputs.new-tag }}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Inputs

Input	Description	Default
token	The GitHub token	None
tag-prefix	A tag prefix, e.g. v leads to v2024.1.17	""

Outputs

Output	Description
old-tag	The highest version tag, prefix with tag-prefix, found in the repository.
old-version	The highest version, found in the repository.
new-tag	The next version tag, prefix with tag-prefix.
new-version	The next version, based on the old-version and current date.

Attributions

Based on the awesome work of https://github.com/egoodhall/calver, just with focused functionality and more automation.