Niels Basjes opened MRELEASE-1078 and commented

My aim is to support having something like https://www.conventionalcommits.org/ in the maven-release-plugin.

This simply means that the next version of a release is calculated from the last tag in the version history and the patterns in the commit messages since that tag.

This issue depends on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SCM-977 being available (i.e. we have the commit messages and tags available).
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Issue Links:

• SCM-977 Support for retrieving tags from the changelog
  ("is blocked by")
• MRELEASE-431 Configuration of policy for calculating next (release) version
  ("depends upon")

Remote Links:

• GitHub Pull Request #104