Generate Release Notes From Merged PRs

generate_gh_release_notes.sh

#!/bin/bash

## Looks for the last release that was merged into master with the name "release", this allows for hotfixes to be included in the PR Changelog
last_release=`gh pr list -s merged --base master|grep 'release'|awk 'NR==1{print $1}'`

merged_prs=`gh pr list -s merged --limit 10 --search sort:updated-desc --json number,title --template '{{range .}}{{printf "#%.0f \n" .number}}{{end}}' |sed "/$last_release/q"`
formatted_prs=`echo "$merged_prs"| awk '{print " - " $0}'`

pr_body="## Features & Bug Fixes"$'\n'
pr_body+=""$'\n'
pr_body+="$formatted_prs"$'\n'
pr_body+=""$'\n'
pr_body+="## Post-Deployment Tasks"$'\n'
pr_body+=""$'\n'
pr_body+="- [ ] Insert Post Deployment tasks here"$'\n'
pr_body+="- [ ] Or remove this list..."$'\n'
pr_body+="- [ ] If there isn't any post-deployment things to do"$'\n'
pr_body+=""$'\n'

echo "$pr_body"