GitHub Actions workflow tailored to the workflow the Laravel org uses to release new versions of their projects.

update-changelog-laravel.yaml

name: "Update Changelog"

on:
  release:
    types: [released]

jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          # Fetch entire history of repository to ensure relase date can be
          # extracted from commit of the given tag.
          fetch-depth: 0
          # Checkout target branch of this release. Ensures that the CHANGELOG
          # is not out of date.
          ref: ${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}

      - name: Extract release date from git tag
        id: release_date
        run: |
          echo "::set-output name=date::$(git log -1 --date=short --format=%ad '${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}')"

      - name: Update Changelog
        uses: stefanzweifel/changelog-updater-action@v1
        with:
          # Pass extracted release date, release notes and version to the Action.
          release-date: ${{ steps.release_date.outputs.date }}
          release-notes: ${{ github.event.release.body }}
          latest-version: ${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
          compare-url-target-revision: ${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}

      - name: Commit updated CHANGELOG
        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
        with:
          # Push updated CHANGELOG to release target branch.
          branch: ${{ github.event.release.target_commitish }}
          commit_message: Update CHANGELOG
          file_pattern: CHANGELOG.md