Some merged PRs not considered by semantic-release #947
Description
Issue
When the following PRs were merged into the master branch, the release job in CircleCI failed to consider their contents. The information message was:
ℹ The local branch master is behind the remote one, therefore a new version won't be published.
5936243 ci(deps): update semantic-release to 24.2.3 (#944)
875b5dc ci: use node.js 22 in circleci mac job (#941)
1362fed ci: use node.js 22 in circleci windows jobs (#939)
- For instance, for PR ci: use node.js 22 in circleci windows jobs #939 before
semantic-releasewas updated, and using the older version:
npm warn exec The following package was not found and will be installed: [email protected]
npm warn deprecated [email protected]: Renamed to read-package-up
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ℹ Running semantic-release version 23.1.1
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/github"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "analyzeCommits" from "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "generateNotes" from "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "prepare" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "publish" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "publish" from "@semantic-release/github"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "addChannel" from "@semantic-release/npm"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "addChannel" from "@semantic-release/github"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "success" from "@semantic-release/github"
[1:16:37 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Loaded plugin "fail" from "@semantic-release/github"
[1:16:39 PM] [semantic-release] › ✔ Run automated release from branch master on repository git+https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-example-kitchensink.git
[1:16:39 PM] [semantic-release] › ℹ The local branch master is behind the remote one, therefore a new version won't be published.
Analysis
- In PR ci: use node.js 22 in circleci windows jobs #939 there is no log entry that the branch was updated with the
masterbranch before merging into themasterbranch.
Suggestion
Consider setting a branch protection rule for the master branch according to:
Require status checks before merging
with "Require branch to be up to date before merging" selected:
