Draft Release For Free

Releases are deployable software iterations you can package and make available for a wider audience to download and use. Releases are based on Git tags, which mark a specific point in your repository's history. A tag date may be different than a release date since they can be created at different times.

A GitHub action that automatically drafts a GitHub release based on a newly created version tag. The commit messages between the created version tag and the one that came before it will become the release notes.

GitHub - release-drafter/release-drafter: Drafts your next release notes as pull requests are merged into master. Features. Actions. Packages. Security.

Automatically generated release notes provide an automated alternative to manually writing release notes for your GitHub releases. With automatically generated release notes, you can quickly generate an overview of the contents of a release.

There are two ways to create releases in GitHub: by tagging a commit manually or by using the Draft a new release option on the website. For version 1.0, I used the Draft a new release option, which allows an author to create a release on the GitHub webpage.

Creating a releaseOn GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository.To the right of the list of files, click Releases.Click Draft a new release.Click Choose a tag, type a version number for your release, and press Enter.If you are creating a new tag, click Create new tag.More items...

Visit your Azure DevOps team, select Releases, then New > New release pipeline....Select the option to add an artifact, this will show different options to manage the configuration like:Project.Name.Specific artifact (Note: you can only select one after a build pipeline has been successfully executed)