Publisher

Software package release automation for GitHub

Publisher manages your package versioning and release workflow.

Features

CI-based publishing

• Avoids pitfalls with local publishing
• Publish credentials are not stored on developer machines
• No separate publish permissions to manage
• Use GitHub Actions or bring your own CI

Multi-package monorepo support

• Works with yarn workspaces
• Independent package versions

Pull request-based release workflow

• Collaborative editing, review, and approval of versions and release notes
• Automatically scaffolded release pull requests based on relevant changes since prior release
• No need for a locally-run CLI
• Easily extensible quality checks (via GitHub Commit Status or Check Run APIs)

Package change detection via hashing of published artifacts

• Detects changes to packages even if the package directory or code is not modified (e.g. pre-publish scripts, top-level Babel configuration, etc.)
• Impossible for unpublished changes to be dependended on by other packages

Single-click canary releases

• Easily publish canary releases from any commit on any branch

Supported Package Ecosystems

Publisher currently supports publishing npm/yarn packages.