Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

fledge 0.1.99.9043 (2025-11-12)

Continuous integration

• Fix reviewdog and add commenting workflow (#1030).

fledge 0.1.99.9042 (2025-11-10)

Features

• Treat versions with two components as release versions.

Continuous integration

• Review env vers when installing, more careful foreign runs, format with clang-format (#1028).

fledge 0.1.99.9041 (2025-11-08)

Continuous integration

• Format with air, check detritus, better handling of extra-packages (#923).

documentation

• Update function reference links in README.md (#880).

fledge 0.1.99.9040 (2025-05-04)

Continuous integration

• Enhance permissions for workflow (#872).

fledge 0.1.99.9039 (2025-04-30)

Continuous integration

• Permissions, better tests for missing suggests, lints (#870).

• Only fail covr builds if token is given (#867).

• Always use _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false (#866).

• Correct installation of xml2 (#863).

• Explain (#861).

• Add xml2 for covr, print testthat results (#860).

• Sync (#859).

fledge 0.1.99.9038 (2025-04-06)

Chore

• Extract get_release_branch_from_version().

fledge 0.1.99.9037 (2024-12-26)

Features

• bump_version(which = "dev") always bumps from non-dev.

Chore

• IDE.

fledge 0.1.99.9036 (2024-12-12)

Bug fixes

• Support empty commit messages.

• is_news_consistent() detects releases of the kind x.y.z-w.

• Work around bug in order() for package versions.

• Use correct version for checking GH release.

• Use correct version for checking GH release.

• release_after_cran_built_binaries() works correctly again (#848).

Features

• Better entry if PR info could not be extracted.

• Support versions of the form x.y.z-w for tagging.

• Newsworthy commits are searched along the first parents only, picking up all relevant commits (#847).

• Determining the most recent tag now uses the new get_last_version_tag() and works when the version tag is on a diverged branch (e.g., after squash-merging) (#844).

• Consistent protection of hash tag (#836).

• Keep empty lines when merging (#834).

• plan_release() pulls the current branch (#831).

Chore

• Get tagging information from fledgling.

• Clear clipboard after successful discovery of CRAN URL.

• Check token early for automation (#841).

• Refactor (#835).

Continuous integration

• Install R.

• Avoid failure in fledge workflow if no changes (#851).

• Fetch tags for fledge workflow to avoid unnecessary NEWS entries (#850).

• Use larger retry count for lock-threads workflow (#849).

• Ignore errors when removing pkg-config on macOS (#840).

• Explicit permissions (#839).

• Use styler from main branch (#838).

• Need to install R on Ubuntu 24.04 (#837).

• Use Ubuntu 24.04 and styler PR (#829).

Testing

• Fix test (#846).

Uncategorized

• Ci: Fix macOS (#16) (#830).

fledge 0.1.99.9035 (2024-11-24)

Features

• Keep only raw NEWS (#827).

Chore

• Refactorings and a new test (#825).

• Better JSON snapshot (#824).

• Keep raw component up to date, use it for assembling the NEWS (#823).

fledge 0.1.99.9034 (2024-11-23)

Chore

• Distinguish news component from news column in data frame (#820).

fledge 0.1.99.9033 (2024-11-22)

Bug fixes

• CRAN PRs are no longer created as draft (#810).

• fledge:::release_after_cran_built_binaries() no longer throws an error if no release exists.

Features

• finalize_version() unconditionally overwrites existing tags (#819).

• Pre-releases get a different PR title (#818).

• PR must open from the main window (#816).

• plan_release() calls bump_version() (#814).

• Detect contributors for squashed commits (#813).

• Mention bump_version(check_default_branch = FALSE) in error message (#812).

• New plan_release(), replaces init_release() and pre_release() (#803).

• Support which = "pre-patch" for bump_version() and update_version() (#802).

• bump_version() does not bump if no newsworthy messages are found (#801).

• Messages that start with "fledge: " are no longer considered newsworthy (#800).

• Include only relevant info in cran-comments.md (#799).

• Support pre-patch version, new versioning scheme starting at 9900 (#794).

Chore

• Bump commit messages get a fledge prefix.

• Add fledge prefix to CRAN PR (#809).

Continuous integration

• Remove Aviator (#815).

• Correctly detect branch protection (#811).

• Sync fledge workflow.

Refactoring

• is_dev_version() and related (#805).

Testing

• Reduce use of shut_up_fledge() (#796).

• Speed up tests by replacing gert::git_add() with a system call (#793).

• Split slow test.

fledge 0.1.99.9032 (2024-11-11)

Continuous integration

• Trigger run (#792).

fledge 0.1.99.9031 (2024-10-28)

Continuous integration

• Use pkgdown branch (#791).

fledge 0.1.99.9030 (2024-09-15)

Continuous integration

• Install via R CMD INSTALL ., not pak (#789).

fledge 0.1.99.9029 (2024-08-31)

Chore

• Add Aviator configuration.

Continuous integration

• Install local package for pkgdown builds.

• Improve support for protected branches, without fledge.

Testing

• Snapshot updates for rcc-smoke (null) (#786).

fledge 0.1.99.9028 (2024-08-19)

Bug fixes

• Try pushing head first.

• Try pushing head first, fail with branch protection.

Features

• bump_version(check_default_branch = TRUE).

fledge 0.1.99.9027 (2024-08-17)

Chore

• Auto-update from GitHub Actions.

  Run: https://github.com/cynkra/fledge/actions/runs/10425483871

Continuous integration

• Sync with latest developments.

fledge 0.1.99.9026 (2024-08-10)

Continuous integration

• Use v2 instead of master.

fledge 0.1.99.9025 (2024-08-06)

Continuous integration

• Inline action.

fledge 0.1.99.9024 (2024-08-03)

Testing

• Snapshot updates for R-CMD-check-base (null) (#783).

fledge 0.1.99.9023 (2024-08-02)

Continuous integration

• Use dev roxygen2 and decor.

Testing

• Accept snapshots after knitr update.

fledge 0.1.99.9022 (2024-07-02)

Continuous integration

• Fix on Windows, tweak lock workflow.

fledge 0.1.99.9021 (2024-06-30)

Chore

• Auto-update from GitHub Actions.

  Run: https://github.com/cynkra/fledge/actions/runs/9727971994

fledge 0.1.99.9020 (2024-06-28)

Chore

• Auto-update from GitHub Actions.

  Run: https://github.com/cynkra/fledge/actions/runs/9691617690

Continuous integration

• Avoid checking bashisms on Windows.

• Remove netlify workflow.

• Remove special branch.

• Bump versions, better default, consume custom matrix.

• Recent updates.

fledge 0.1.99.9019 (2024-06-26)

Bug fixes

• Update bump-version.R - replace length test in get_main_branch_config() (#775).

fledge 0.1.99.9018 (2024-04-16)

Documentation

• Set BS version explicitly for now.

  https://github.com/cynkra/cynkratemplate/issues/53

fledge 0.1.99.9017 (2024-02-19)

Chore

• Move responsibility for writing fledgeling, memoise, add repo argument (#761).

fledge 0.1.99.9016 (2024-01-24)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.99.9015 (2024-01-15)

Chore

• Work around r-lib/roxygen2#1570.

fledge 0.1.99.9014 (2023-12-22)

Bug fixes

• Create releases with correct body (#756).

Chore

• Add Aviator configuration.

fledge 0.1.99.9013 (2023-11-09)

Bug fixes

• create_github_release() removes the header from the NEWS entry.

fledge 0.1.99.9012 (2023-11-07)

Features

• Do not report installation size problems (#755).

fledge 0.1.99.9011 (2023-11-05)

Features

• post_release() no longer checks if on release branch (#750).

Chore

• Use news_path() (#751).

fledge 0.1.99.9010 (2023-11-03)

Features

• Allow bumping straight from released version (#747).

• post_release() is independent from release branch (#748).

Chore

• Add aviator configuration.

fledge 0.1.99.9009 (2023-10-28)

Features

• Release package as soon as it’s available on PPM.

fledge 0.1.99.9008 (2023-10-23)

Features

• New init_release(), to be called before pre_release() (#686).

fledge 0.1.99.9007 (2023-10-21)

Features

• Automatically merge news from dev versions before release (#744).

• More extensive preflight checks in post_release(), reduce output in quiet mode (#740).

Testing

• Basic testing scripts (#742).

fledge 0.1.99.9006 (2023-10-19)

Bug fixes

• Extract error from first submission step, fix CRAN submission (#738).

• Check if release exists before creating (#731).

Chore

• Add version and ref arguments to create_release_branch(), fix create_release_branch(force = TRUE) (#734).

• no_change() and other functions gain ref argument (#733).

• Pretty check_only_modified() (#705).

• Refactorings for #686 (#729).

Testing

• Is this how we handle NoSuggests checks 😅 (#732).

fledge 0.1.99.9005 (2023-10-09)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.99.9004 (2023-10-03)

Chore

• More efficient data frame access (#706).

Refactoring

• Replace httr with httr2 (#712).

tests

• Clean up, simplify tests (#716).

• Add a function to help run the tests without losing one’s current dir (#715).

fledge 0.1.99.9003 (2023-09-26)

Testing

• Add a test for upper case conventional commit type (#711).

fledge 0.1.99.9002 (2023-07-11)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.99.9001 (2023-06-22)

Bug fixes

• Ask fledgeling for version.

• Bad merge conflict resolution from v0.1.1.

Features

• Indent multiline NEWS items.

• More skip_if_offline() calls.

• Type stability of fledgeling object.

Chore

• Avoid useless computation.

Testing

• Prefer local_options(repos = NULL) over skip_if_offline().

• Test order.

Uncategorized

• Merge branch ‘cran-0.1.1’.

fledge 0.1.99.9000 (2023-06-21)

• Merge branch ‘cran-0.1.1’.

fledge 0.1.0.9047 (2023-06-16)

Bug fixes

• Guess_next() works as expected for .99. versions.

fledge 0.1.0.9046 (2023-06-13)

Bug fixes

• Suppress clipr warnings.

Features

• More flexible version extraction from release PR title (#678).

fledge 0.1.0.9045 (2023-06-09)

Bug fixes

• Adapt to new behavior of usethis::use_news_md() (#680).

Chore

• Clean version header parsing (#610).

fledge 0.1.0.9044 (2023-06-06)

Chore

• Tell it what to merge.

fledge 0.1.0.9043 (2023-06-01)

Bug fixes

• post_release() works if the release branch doesn’t change files in the main branch.

fledge 0.1.0.9042 (2023-05-28)

Bug fixes

• Better error message when duplicate version name (#673).

Testing

• Snapshot updates for rcc-smoke (null) (#677).

fledge 0.1.0.9041 (2023-04-18)

Refactoring

• Slightly simplify pre_release() (#669).

fledge 0.1.0.9040 (2023-04-13)

Features

• bump_version() only works in interactive sessions or if NEWS.md has a preamble (or both) (#638).

fledge 0.1.0.9039 (2023-04-04)

Bug fixes

• Use pkg version from open PR, not from CRAN page (#662).

Testing

• Snapshot updates for rcc-smoke (null) (#660).

• Snapshot updates for rcc-smoke (null) (#647).

• Fix snapshots after updates of upstream dependencies (#657).

fledge 0.1.0.9038 (2023-03-28)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9037 (2023-03-24)

Features

• Do not write “Same as previous version” as first thing in a brand-new changelog (#655).

• New internal release_after_cran_built_binaries() to support automated CRAN release from GHA (#651).

Documentation

• Update pitch (#656).

fledge 0.1.0.9036 (2023-03-21)

Features

• Add ability to parse two-line headers (#654).

Refactoring

• Use the full power of {cli} (#640).

fledge 0.1.0.9035 (2023-03-15)

Features

• Add special CRAN release label to release PRs (#649).

fledge 0.1.0.9034 (2023-03-08)

tests

• Replace httptest with httptest2 as gh now uses httr2 instead of httr (#646).

fledge 0.1.0.9033 (2023-02-17)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9032 (2023-02-12)

Bug fixes

• Bump to dev version in pre_release().

fledge 0.1.0.9031 (2023-02-09)

Refactoring

• Update fledge URL in NEWS preamble (#622).

fledge 0.1.0.9030 (2023-02-05)

Bug fixes

• Work around unexplicable behavior in demo tests.

• Remove push trigger in fledge.yaml, seems broken.

• bump_version() keeps updating Date field if it exists in DESCRIPTION.

Features

• post_release() pulls the main branch before merging (#525).

Closes #525.

• New mode of operation "samedev", for #147.

• update_news() gains which argument, deprecate update_version() (#607).

Chore

• Move packages from Imports to Suggests.

• Add extra snapshot.

• Clean up snapshots.

• usethis::use_lifecycle().

• Prepare roundtrip via fledgeling (#606).

• Move foghorn and rversions to Suggests (#605).

• Run fledge workflow only on main branch (#597).

Continuous integration

• Add test prefix to snapshot updates PR template (#582).

Refactoring

• Use write_fledgling() to write NEWS.md (#588).

Uncategorized

• Remove false Markdown link? (#592).

fledge 0.1.0.9029 (2022-12-30)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9028 (2022-12-22)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9027 (2022-12-09)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9026 (2022-12-06)

Features

• Support for linked issues from other repositories (#595).

fledge 0.1.0.9025 (2022-11-19)

Documentation

• Typo.

fledge 0.1.0.9024 (2022-11-12)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9023 (2022-11-11)

Bug fixes

• Remove partial matching warning (#579).

Features

• Draft fledgeling object, ready for internal use (#581).

• Add full stop to messages (#578).

Chore

• Store downlit info (#580).

Documentation

• Cynkratemplate::use_cynkra_pkgdown() + re-add comment (@krlmlr, @41898282+github-actions-bot, @maelle, #568).

Uncategorized

• Split news (#584).

fledge 0.1.0.9022 (2022-11-10)

Bug fixes

• Add full stop for entries

fledge 0.1.0.9021 (2022-11-09)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9020 (2022-11-03)

• Snapshot updates for R-CMD-check-base (null) (#570)

fledge 0.1.0.9019 (2022-10-28)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9018 (2022-10-26)

Documentation

• Fix URL (#573)

fledge 0.1.0.9017 (2022-10-24)

Bug fixes

• Relax requirement for GitHub PAT scope (#572)

fledge 0.1.0.9016 (2022-10-20)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9015 (2022-10-19)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9014 (2022-10-18)

• Harmonize yaml formatting

• Revert changes to matrix section

fledge 0.1.0.9013 (2022-10-16)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9012 (2022-10-14)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9011 (2022-10-11)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9010 (2022-09-20)

Features

• bump_version() returns TRUE if a new version has been created

fledge 0.1.0.9009 (2022-09-20)

Features

• Better support for merge commits of all kinds (@maelle, #512)

Uncategorized

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9008 (2022-09-18)

Features

• Better support for merge commits of all kinds (@maelle, #512)

Uncategorized

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9007 (2022-09-16)

Features

• Better support for merge commits of all kinds (@maelle, #512)

Uncategorized

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9006 (2022-09-14)

Features

• Better support for merge commits of all kinds (@maelle, #512)

Uncategorized

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9005 (2022-09-13)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9004 (2022-09-12)

• Internal changes only.

fledge 0.1.0.9003 (2022-09-12)

Bug fixes

• Adjust empty lines and space in update_news() (#357)

• Add PR number to CC messages (#353).

• Fix conventional commit regex (#329)

Features

• New default pre_release(which = "next") (#521, #524).

• Add which “pre-minor” and “pre-major” to update_version() (#413, #412).

• Include reference to issue closed with a PR (#361, #411).

• Capitalize first letter of each bullet (#360, #409).

• Extract contributor name from PR merge message (@krlmlr, #358)

• Harvest PR attribution from squash commits (@maelle, #349)

• Harvest PR title from merge commit messages (@krlmlr, @maelle, #343)

• Improve parsing of conventional commit messages (#332).

• Improve bump_version() (error) messages (@maelle, #328)

• Improve bump_version() behavior in the absence of changes (@krlmlr, @maelle, #323)

• New local_test_project() (#318)

• Extract conventional commit messages for the changelog (#314).

Chore

• Turn Netlify builds off for now (#326).

• Enable auto-style on GitHub Actions (#317).

• Remove testthat specialization for snapshots (#309).

Continuous integration

• Create fledge.yaml (#520).

Documentation

• Add README section on related tools (#527).

• Update summary of how fledge uses commit messages (#499, #511).

• Fix typo in README (#501)

Uncategorized

• Create and open draft release directly, without using usethis::use_github_release().

• Create tag as part of release().

• Fix post_release(), still need to tag released version.

fledge 0.1.0.9002 (2022-04-02)

• release() no longer asks for confirmation.
• Inline devtools::submit_cran() minus the confirmation messages.

fledge 0.1.0.9001 (2022-02-22)

• New pre_release(), release() and post_release() for semi-automatic CRAN releases (#27, #28).
• Separate snapshot tests for dev version of testthat.

fledge 0.1.0.9000 (2021-12-07)

• Same as previous version.

fledge 0.1.1 (2023-06-16)

CRAN release: 2023-06-17

• Compatibility release for usethis 2.2.0.

fledge 0.1.0 (2021-12-07)

CRAN release: 2021-12-07

Change log management utility, initial release.

The main entry point is bump_version(), which does the following:

1. Checks that DESCRIPTION and NEWS.md are clean before bumping, and that the current branch is the main branch.
2. update_news(): collects NEWS entries from top-level commits
3. update_version(): bump version in DESCRIPTION, add header to NEWS.md
4. Depending on the kind of update:
   • If “dev”, finalize_version(): commit DESCRIPTION and NEWS.md, create tag with message
   • Otherwise, commit_version(); the user needs to call tag_version() manually
5. Suggests to push the changes if an upstream repository is configured.

If you haven’t committed since updating NEWS.md and DESCRIPTION, you can also edit NEWS.md and call tag_version() again. Both the commit and the tag will be updated.

Bumping can be undone with unbump_version().

If the DESCRIPTION has a "Date" field, it is populated with the current date in update_version(). Likewise, if NEWS.md contains dates in the headers, new versions also get a date.

An empty list of changes adds a “Same as previous version” bullet. This allows bumping to a dev version immediately after CRAN release.

Also includes helper functions get_last_tag() and get_top_level_commits().

Includes vignettes: “Get started”, “Using fledge”, and “Fledge internals”. Examples and tests are supported with a demo project, created via with_demo_project().

Thanks Patrick Schratz and Maëlle Salmon for your contributions!