Copilot Release Notes

Version updated for https://github.com/github/copilot-release-notes to version v1.0.1.

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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 specified git references, leveraging GitHub Copilot’s AI capabilities. It simplifies release documentation by extracting insights from PR titles, bodies, labels, and diffs, and provides outputs in both markdown and JSON formats for integration into changelogs, dashboards, or communication tools. Key features include team-customizable formatting, uncertainty flagging for human review, and security-hardening measures.

What’s Changed

Fixed

  • Improved PR discovery for repos using GitHub API strategy

Documentation

  • Added Background and Requirements sections to README
  • Updated all references from desktop/copilot-release-notes to github/copilot-release-notes

Security

  • Resolved 5 Dependabot alerts for handlebars (1 critical, 3 high, 1 low)
  • Resolved 1 moderate brace-expansion vulnerability