cargo release

Features

• Ensure you are in a good state for release, including:
  • Right branch
  • Up-to-date with remote
  • Clean tree
• Supports workspaces using cargo's native flags, like --workspace, --exclude and --package
  • Updates dependent crates in workspace when changing version
  • Change detection to help guide in what crates might not need a release
  • Optionally share commits
• Handles cargo publish, tagging, and pushing
• Pre-release search and replace for custom version updates, including
  • Updating changelogs
  • Update tags in Dockerfiles
• Pre-release hook for extra customization, including
  • CHANGELOG generation

Install

Current release: 0.24.11

$ cargo install cargo-release

Usage

$ cargo release [level]

• See the reference for more on level, other CLI arguments, and configuration file format.
• See also the FAQ for help in figuring out how to adapt cargo-release to your workflow.

Prerequisite

• Your project should be managed by git.

Dry run

By default, cargo-release runs in dry-run mode so you can safely run it and verify what it will do.

• Increase the logging level with each additional -v to get more details
• Speed up dry-run by skipping cargo-publishs verify step with --no-verify

Once you are ready, pass the --execute flag.

Related tools

• release-pr Action
• cargo-smart-release
• cargo-set-version
• cargo-unleash
• release-plz
• cargo-workspaces

Semver Compatibility

cargo-release's versioning tracks compatibility for the binaries, not the API. We upload to crates.io to distribute the binary. If using this as a library, be sure to pin the version with a = version requirement operator.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.