Bump Version

This GitHub Action allows you to bump the patch version of your semantic versioned project.

Usage

Periodic releases at midnight

name: ci

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '30 1 */1 * *'

jobs:
  scheduled-release:
    if: github.event_name == 'schedule'
    permissions:
      contents: write # required for git tag
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Bump version
        uses: licenseware/bump-version@v1
        with:
          release: 'true' # Publish GitHub release (truthy values: true, yes, 1)
          tag: 'true' # Tag and push to repository (truthy values: true, yes, 1)
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # required for GitHub release

Sign git tags with GPG

name: ci

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '30 1 */1 * *'

jobs:
  scheduled-release:
    if: github.event_name == 'schedule'
    permissions:
      contents: write # required for git tag
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Bump version
        uses: licenseware/bump-version@v1
        with:
          gpg-private-key: ${{ secrets.GPG_PRIVATE_KEY }}
          gpg-key-id: ${{ secrets.GPG_KEY_ID }}
          tag: 'true'

Bump with no side-effect

name: ci

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - v*

jobs:
  bump-version:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Bump version
        id: bump
        uses: licenseware/bump-version@v1
      - name: Get the new version
        run: echo "The new version is ${{ steps.bump.outputs.version }}"

How it works

Here's a table of input and their output when running this Action:

Input	Output
v1	v1.0.1
v1.2	v1.2.1
v1.2.3	v1.2.4