Copilot Release Notes

Version updated for https://github.com/github/copilot-release-notes to version v1.0.0.

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Action Type

This is a Node action using Node version 24.

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Action Summary

The “Copilot Release Notes” GitHub Action automates the generation of structured, human-readable release notes by analyzing pull requests merged between two specified git references. Leveraging GitHub Copilot’s AI capabilities, it extracts relevant information from PR titles, bodies, labels, and diffs, while offering team-customizable formatting and output in both markdown and JSON. This action streamlines release note creation, enhances accuracy, and flags uncertain entries for manual review, solving the challenge of maintaining consistent and comprehensive release documentation.

What’s Changed

Copilot Release Notes v1.0.0

AI-powered release notes generation from pull requests between two git refs, using GitHub Copilot CLI.

Features

  • Zero configuration — works out of the box with sensible defaults
  • Team-customizable — drop a style guide at .github/release-notes-instructions.md and the action follows your conventions
  • Structured output — markdown and JSON outputs for releases, changelogs, Slack, or dashboards
  • Uncertainty flagging — entries the AI isn’t confident about are separated for human review

Usage

- name: Generate release notes
  uses: github/copilot-release-notes@v1
  with:
    base-ref: v1.0.0
    head-ref: v1.1.0
  env:
    COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}

See the README for full documentation.