semantic-release/docs/usage/plugins.md

Plugins

Each release step is implemented by configurable plugins. This allows for support of different commit message formats, release note generators and publishing platforms.

A plugin is a npm module that can implement one or more of the following steps:

Step	Accept multiple	Required	Description
verifyConditions	Yes	No	Responsible for verifying conditions necessary to proceed with the release: configuration is correct, authentication token are valid, etc...
analyzeCommits	No	Yes	Responsible for determining the type of the next release (major, minor or patch).
verifyRelease	Yes	No	Responsible for verifying the parameters (version, type, dist-tag etc...) of the release that is about to be published.
generateNotes	Yes	No	Responsible for generating the content of the release note. If multiple generateNotes plugins are defined, the release notes will be the result of the concatenation of each plugin output.
prepare	Yes	No	Responsible for preparing the release, for example creating or updating files such as package.json, CHANGELOG.md, documentation or compiled assets and pushing a commit.
publish	Yes	No	Responsible for publishing the release.
success	Yes	No	Responsible for notifying of a new release.
fail	Yes	No	Responsible for notifying of a failed release.

See available plugins.

Plugins configuration

Each plugin must be installed and configured with the plugins options by specifying the list of plugins by npm module name.

$ npm install @semantic-release/commit-analyzer @semantic-release/release-notes-generator @semantic-release/npm -D

{
  "plugins": ["@semantic-release/commit-analyzer", "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator", "@semantic-release/npm"]
}

Plugin ordering

For each release step the plugins that implement that step will be executed in the order in which the are defined.

{
  "plugins": [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
    "@semantic-release/npm",
    "@semantic-release/git"
  ]
}

With this configuration semantic-release will:

• execute the verifyConditions implementation of @semantic-release/npm then @semantic-release/git
• execute the analyzeCommits implementation of @semantic-release/commit-analyzer
• execute the prepare implementation of @semantic-release/npm then @semantic-release/git
• execute the generateNotes implementation of @semantic-release/release-notes-generator
• execute the publish implementation of @semantic-release/npm

Plugin options

A plugin options can specified by wrapping the name and an options object in an array. Options configured this way will be passed only to that specific plugin.

Global plugin options can defined at the root of the semantic-release configuration object. Options configured this way will be passed to all plugins.

{
  "plugins": [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
    ["@semantic-release/github", {
      "assets": ["dist/**"]
      }],
    "@semantic-release/git"
  ],
  "preset": "angular"
}

With this configuration:

• All plugins will receive the preset option, which will be used by both @semantic-release/commit-analyzer and @semantic-release/release-notes-generator (and ignored by @semantic-release/github and @semantic-release/git)
• The @semantic-release/github plugin will receive the assets options (@semantic-release/git will not receive it and therefore will use it's default value for that option)