Merge branch 'release-fixes'

* release-fixes:
  MISC: mknews.sh: print latest NEWS.md version with `misc/mknews.sh --version`
  GITHUB: workflows/release.yml: set prerelease:false for annotated tags
	Fix actions/checkout@v3 and actions/checkout@v4 messing up the annotation of
	the currently fetched tag, even with fetch-depth:0, see: actions/checkout#290
  MISC: mknews.sh: for release tags, copy news section from NEWS.md

Signed-off-by: Tim Janik <timj@gnu.org>

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -13,12 +13,15 @@ jobs:
   Release-Build-and-Upload:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
-    - name: Fetch Repository Tags
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0 		# Fetch history and all (annotated) tags
+    - name: Fetch Tag
+      id: fetchtag
       run: |
+        git fetch -f --tags	# Fix actions/checkout messing up annotation of the fetched tag: actions/checkout#290
+        echo "ISPRERELEASE=$(test tag != $(git cat-file -t $GITHUB_REF_NAME) && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
         misc/version.sh
-        git fetch --unshallow
         git describe --tags --exact-match 2>/dev/null || git describe
         git cat-file -t $GITHUB_REF_NAME
 
@@ -38,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
       if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
       with:
-        prerelease: true
+        prerelease: ${{ steps.fetchtag.outputs.ISPRERELEASE }}
         files:      assets/*
         body_path:  assets.txt
 

misc/mknews.sh

@@ -21,20 +21,36 @@ fetch_news_version() # fetch_news_version {1|2}
   "
   sed -nre "$SEDSCRIPT" "${ABSPATHSCRIPT%/*}"/../NEWS.md
 }
-
-# Produce assets/NEWS.md
-CURRENT_VERSION=$("${ABSPATHSCRIPT%/*}"/version.sh | (read v h d && echo $v))
 NEWS_TAG="v$(fetch_news_version 1)"
 
-echo "## Anklang $CURRENT_VERSION"
-echo
-echo 'Development version - may contain bugs or compatibility issues.'
-echo
-echo '``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````'
-git log --pretty='%s    # %cd %an %h%n%w(0,4,4)%b' \
-    --reverse \
-    --first-parent --date=short "$NEWS_TAG..HEAD" |
-  sed -e '/^\s*Signed-off-by:.*<.*@.*>/d' |
-  sed '/^\s*$/{ N; /^\s*\n\s*$/D }'
-echo '``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````'
-echo
+# Just print topmost NEWS.md version
+test " ${1:-}" == " --version" && {
+  echo "$NEWS_TAG"
+  exit 0
+}
+
+# When generating news for release tags...
+if RELEASETAG=$(git describe --match='v[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*' --exact-match 2>/dev/null) ; then
+  # Copy release version news section from NEWS.md
+  SEDSEC1="
+    0,/^##?\s/n;		# Read ahead until first heading
+    /^##?\s/Q;			# Quit processing before printing second heading
+  "
+  sed -re "$SEDSEC1" < NEWS.md |
+    sed -z 's/\n\+$/\n/'	# Strip newlines at EOF
+else
+  # Generate pre-release news from git history
+  CURRENT_VERSION=$("${ABSPATHSCRIPT%/*}"/version.sh | (read v h d && echo $v))
+  echo "## Anklang $CURRENT_VERSION"
+  echo
+  echo 'Development version - may contain bugs or compatibility issues.'
+  echo
+  echo '``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````'
+  git log --pretty='%s    # %cd %an %h%n%w(0,4,4)%b' \
+      --reverse \
+      --first-parent --date=short "$NEWS_TAG..HEAD" |
+    sed -e '/^\s*Signed-off-by:.*<.*@.*>/d' |
+    sed '/^\s*$/{ N; /^\s*\n\s*$/D }'
+  echo '``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````'
+  echo
+fi