Actions

Version Autopilot

This is perfect for packages that are not meant to be consumed by other packages, like a website or a mobile app, where semantic versioning is not required and is continuously deployed.

This will automatically increment the version on every run of your github action pipeline.

steps:
  - name: Checkout
    id: checkout
    uses: actions/checkout@v4

  - name: example in README.md task
    id: version-autopilot
    uses: leblancmeneses/actions/dist/apps/version-autopilot@main
    with:
      major: 0
      minor: 0
      shift: 50 # remove if this is a brand new application. Otherwise, use this to match your current version.

  - name: example in README.md output
    run: |
      echo "github.run_number: ${{ github.run_number }}"

      # useful for container image and package names
      echo "version_autopilot_string_recommended: ${{ steps.version-autopilot.outputs.version_autopilot_string_recommended }}"

      # base to derive your own versioning naming scheme
      echo "version_autopilot_string: ${{ steps.version-autopilot.outputs.version_autopilot_string }}"

      # android and ios version codes
      echo "version_autopilot_code: ${{ steps.version-autopilot.outputs.version_autopilot_code }}"

If you have an existing application you can modify the major.minor and shift inputs to match the current version of your application. See our .github/workflows/tests.version-autopilot.yml for how rollover works. We leverage ${{github.run_number}} internally to increment the version.

If you are looking for semantic versioning research git tags and release pipelines.

Example steps for a chrome extension:

  - name: update manifest version
    run: |
      manifest=tabsift/extension/manifest.json
      jq --arg version "${{ steps.version-autopilot.outputs.version_autopilot_string }}" '.version = $version' $manifest > tmp.json && mv tmp.json $manifest

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