CHANGELOG.md not getting created/generated

[emme1444]

I know there has been a number of these issues on here, but none of those answer my question / fix my problem.

It used to work, but in the process of testing out configurations now all of a sudden, it's not working. It doesn't create the CHANGELOG.md file. However, all the other plugins seem to work fine.

Here you can see the log output of semantic-release along with its associated configuration.

.releaserc.yaml:

branches:
  - master
repositoryUrl: https://github.com/emme1444/analyst-test4.git
plugins:
  - "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer":
    preset: conventionalcommits
  - "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator":
    preset: conventionalcommits
  - "@semantic-release/changelog"
  - "semantic-release-dart"
  - "@semantic-release/git":
    assets:
      - "CHANGELOG.md"
      - "pubspec.yaml"
      - "pubspec.lock"
dryRun: false
debug: true

debug output of semantic-release:

[9:48:37 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Running semantic-release version 17.3.6
[9:48:37 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "verifyConditions" from "@semantic-release/changelog"
[9:48:37 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "analyzeCommits" from "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[9:48:37 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "prepare" from "@semantic-release/changelog"
[9:48:37 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Loaded plugin "prepare" from "semantic-release-dart"
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Run automated release from branch master on repository https://github.com/emme1444/analyst-test4.git
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Allowed to push to the Git repository
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "verifyConditions" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  No git tag version found on branch master
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  No previous release found, retrieving all commits
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Found 1 commits since last release
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analyzing commit: fix: initial commit
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The release type for the commit is patch
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analysis of 1 commits complete: patch release
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  There is no previous release, the next release version is 1.0.0
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "prepare" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "prepare" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "prepare" of plugin "semantic-release-dart"
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] [semantic-release-dart] › ℹ  Write version 1.0.0 to pubspec.yaml in /home/runner/work/analyst-test4/analyst-test4
[9:48:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "prepare" of plugin "semantic-release-dart"
[9:48:45 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Created tag v1.0.0
[9:48:45 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Published release 1.0.0 on default channel

As you can see it publishes the release (1.0.0). But in between 'ℹ Start step "prepare" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"' and '✔ Completed step "prepare" of plugin "@semantic-release/changelog"'; no logs are written to indicate whether a file was created/generated. In fact, in the cicd pipeline I added an ls -lah command to list the files in the current directory/workspace directory, and this is what that prints (no CHANGELOG.md):

ls -lah output:

total 56K
drwxr-xr-x 6 runner docker 4.0K Jan 21 09:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 runner docker 4.0K Jan 21 09:47 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 runner docker 4.0K Jan 21 09:48 .git
drwxr-xr-x 3 runner docker 4.0K Jan 21 09:47 .github
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker  281 Jan 21 09:47 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker  545 Jan 21 09:47 .releaserc.yaml
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker  12K Jan 21 09:47 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker  478 Jan 21 09:47 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker   35 Jan 21 09:47 analysis_options.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 2 runner docker 4.0K Jan 21 09:47 example
drwxr-xr-x 2 runner docker 4.0K Jan 21 09:47 lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker  253 Jan 21 09:48 pubspec.yaml

I've tried stripping the configuration down, but can't seem to figure out where I went wrong.

Thanks for the help!

[emme1444]

So, it looks like I narrowed the problem down. But I still kind of wanna know why. Or maybe it still is a bug, I don't know.

Basically, I removed the preset options for @semantic-release/commit-analyzer and @semantic-release/release-notes-generator, so that they use the Angular commit spec. My configuration now looks like this:

branches:
  - master
repositoryUrl: https://github.com/emme1444/analyst-test4.git
plugins:
  - "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
  - "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
  - "@semantic-release/changelog"
  - "semantic-release-dart"
  - "@semantic-release/git":
    assets:
      - "CHANGELOG.md"
      - "pubspec.yaml"
      - "pubspec.lock"
dryRun: false
debug: true

Anyway, I still kind of wanna know why this happens. Have I missed something? I initially intended to use the Conventional Commits spec, so would be useful to know.

[nitpum]

@semantic-release/changelog use notes from other plugin (@semantic-release/notes-generator) to create change log
https://github.com/semantic-release/changelog/blob/master/lib/prepare.js#L9

[kcmr]

I'm experiencing the same problem with conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits@7. It seems to be a bug or incompatible change introduced in version 7. It works as expected (CHANGELOG is generated) with versions lower than 7. I've tried 6 and 5 and both work fine.