New version of my VSTS Generate Release Notes extension - now supports Builds and Release

author Richard Fennell calendar May 19, 2016 · 2 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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I am pleased to announce that I have just made public on the VSTS marketplace a new version of my VSTS Generate Release Notes extension.

This new version now supports both VSTS/TFS vNext Builds and vNext Releases. The previous versions only supported the generation of release notes as part of a build.

The adding of support for release has meant I have had to rethink the internals of how the templates is process as well as the way templates are passed into the task and where results are stored

  • You can now provide a template as a file (usually from source control) as before, but also as an inline property. The latter is really designed for Releases where there is usually no access to source control, only to build artifact drops (though you could put the template in one of these if you wanted)
  • With a build the obvious place to put the release notes file is in the drops location. For a release there is no such artifact drop location, so I just leave the releases notes on the release agent, it is up to the user to get this file copied to a sensible location for their release process.

To find out more check out the documentation on my GitHub repo and have a look at my sample templates to get you started generating release notes