Announcing GoReleaser v2.6

Happy new year! The first release of the year is here!

Let’s dig into some of the news!

Bun and Deno

This release adds support for both Bun and Deno! You can run goreleaser init in an existing project, and it should figure it out from there!

If you want to see it in action, check out example-bun and example-deno.

We aim to add support to more builders/languages in the coming releases. You can join the discussion in our Discord.

Use AI to increment your release notes

You can now use ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Ollama to increment/change your release notes.

The default prompt instructs the assistant to write a introduction chapter and to join dependency update commits, but I recommend you roll your own.

Usage is fairly simple, too:

changelog:
  ai:
    use: anthropic
    prompt:
      from_file:
        path: ./prompt.md

You can read the full docs here.

New macOS App Bundle capatilities

On macOS App Bundles, you may now set extra files (and templated extra files), and use that to override your Info.plist (which was previously generated by GoReleaser and impossible to replace):

app_bundles:
  - extra_files:
      - src: ./icon.png
        dst: Contents/Resources/icon.png
    templated_extra_files:
      - src: ./Info.plist
        dst: Contents/Info.plist

New macOS signing features

The native macOS signing now allows you to set the entitlements:

notarize:
  macos:
    - sign:
        entitlements: ./entitlements.xml

New MSI features

The MSI now allows to setextensions:

msi:
  - extensions:
      - '{{ if eq .Runtime.Goos "windows" }}WixUIExtension{{ end }}'
      - "WixUtilExtension"

Archive multiple formats

Instead of repeating the archive section for each format, you may now set formats: [ all the formats you want ]. Incidentally, you may also use format_override to set multiple formats.

A use case for this is if you want to release as tar.gz for all OSs, but also want a zip for Windows. You can then do:

archives:
  - formats:
      - tar.gz
    format_overrides:
      - goos: windows
        formats:
          - zip
          - tar.gz

Announce enabled

All the announcers enabled fields are now templateable.

Example usage:

announce:
  mastodon:
    enabled: "{{ eq .Patch 0 }}" # only if new feature release!
    message_template: "#GoReleaser {{ .Tag }} is out! Check it out: https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/releases/tag/{{ .Tag }}"
    server: https://fosstodon.org

Nightlies for real

Our own nightly builds were being built weekly. Now they are, in fact, running every night! This should help users play with new features earlier.

Other Highlights

Most of the work in this release was around multi-language support, but nevertheless, we have a few other news:

New features

• new: .Format template variable in archives (only on Pro)
• new: Allow to template release.make_latest
• new: Set the mtime in nfpms
• new: We made a maintainers page. Make sure to check it out!
• deprecations: we deprecated archives.format and archives.format_overrides.format in favor of archives.formats and archives.format_overrides.formats, respectively. Details

As always, bug fixes, dependency updates, housekeeping, and documentation updates are included in this release as well.

Other news

• GoReleaser now has ~14.1k stars and 417 contributors! Thanks, everyone!
• We eventually discuss new features in our Discord server.  Join the conversation!
• nFPM had new releases as well,  check it out.

Download

You can install or upgrade using your favorite package manager, or see the full release notes and download the pre-compiled binaries here and here (for Pro).

Helping out

You can help by reporting issues, contributing features, documentation improvements, and bug fixes. You can also sponsor the project, or get a GoReleaser Pro license.