How to automate change log and release creation

Question

I want GitHub Action to create a Change Log and Release Tag when a pull request is merged to the master branch.The current code I have below seems to be creating a version tag out of order and not creating a release.

name: Changelog & Releases
on:
 push:
   branches:
     - master

- name: Changelog Action
        id: changelog
        uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@v3
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} 

      - name: create release
        uses: actions/create-release@v1
        if: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.skipped == 'false'}}
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          tag_name: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
          release_name: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
          body: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.clean_changelog }}

Answer 1

Here is a working Github Actions workflow that I use with one of my release pipelines.

This is exactly the same as your use case. So feel free to use it.

The release action that you are using is currently unmaintained, so use the one that I've mentioned in the workflow below.

name: Release using conventional commits (master branch)

on:
  push:
   branches:
     - master

jobs:
  release:
   runs-on: ubuntu-latest

   steps:
    - name: checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: conventional changelog action
      id: changelog
      # https://github.com/TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action
      uses: TriPSs/conventional-changelog-action@latest
      with:
        # you can also create separate token to trace action
        github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

    - name: create release
      # https://github.com/actions/create-release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
      if: ${{steps.changelog.outputs.skipped == 'false'}}
      env:
        # This token is provided by Actions, you do not need to create your own token
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      with:
          tag_name: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
          name: ${{ steps.changelog.outputs.tag }}
          body: ${{steps.changelog.outputs.clean_changelog}}
          draft: false
          prerelease: false