Release Workflow

Project-specific release conventions for lunar-claude. For the interactive release workflow, use the /generate-changelog command from the git-workflow plugin.

Current Release State

• Latest tag: !git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "No tags yet"

• Marketplace version: !jq -r '.metadata.version' .claude-plugin/marketplace.json

• Unreleased commits: !git log --oneline $(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null)..HEAD 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' '

Version Scheme

• Semantic versioning: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

• Tag format: v0.x.y (prefixed with v )

• Marketplace and plugin manifests track versions independently

Version Bump Decision

Commit types present Bump level

BREAKING CHANGE: in footer or ! after type Major

feat: (new features) Minor

fix: , docs: , refactor: , perf: , test: , chore: only Patch

Commit → Changelog Group Mapping

git-cliff (cliff.toml ) maps conventional commits to changelog groups:

Commit prefix Changelog group

feat

🚀 Features

fix

🐛 Bug Fixes

refactor

🚜 Refactor

doc

📚 Documentation

perf

⚡ Performance

style

🎨 Styling

test

🧪 Testing

chore , ci

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

body contains "security" 🛡️ Security

revert

◀️ Revert

Auto-Skipped Commits

These are filtered out of the changelog automatically:

• chore(release): prepare for — release prep commits

• chore(deps*) — dependency updates (Renovate/Dependabot)

• chore(pr) / chore(pull) — PR merge housekeeping

Files to Update on Release

• CHANGELOG.md — Generated by git-cliff --tag vX.Y.Z -o CHANGELOG.md

• .claude-plugin/marketplace.json — Update metadata.version

• Plugin manifests — Update version in each changed plugin's plugins/<cat>/<name>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json (only if that plugin changed)

Release Commit & Tag

$ git add CHANGELOG.md .claude-plugin/marketplace.json $ git commit -m "docs: update changelog for vX.Y.Z" $ git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m "Release vX.Y.Z" $ git push && git push --tags

GitHub Actions (release.yml ) automatically creates the GitHub release from the tag, generating release notes via git-cliff.

Gotchas

• Push tags separately: git push does not push tags — always follow with git push --tags

• Marketplace version: Easy to forget updating .claude-plugin/marketplace.json

alongside CHANGELOG.md

• Plugin versions are independent: Only bump a plugin's version if that plugin had changes — not every release bumps every plugin

• Pre-release tags: Tags containing rc , beta , or alpha are marked as pre-release in GitHub automatically

• Dependency commits vanish: Renovate/Dependabot commits are auto-skipped in the changelog — this is intentional, not a bug