Add workflow to promote a release to latest/non-prerelease#23811
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Add workflow to promote a release to latest/non-prerelease#23811
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Pull request overview
Adds a manually-triggered GitHub Actions workflow that promotes an existing, published (non-draft) release tag to become the repository’s “latest” release while clearing the prerelease flag.
Changes:
- Introduces a
workflow_dispatchworkflow that accepts aversion(tag) input. - Adds an actor permission gate (admin/maintain) plus a fork guard.
- Validates the target release exists and is not a draft, then updates it to
prerelease: falseandmake_latest: 'true'.
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Adds a manually-triggered workflow to clear the prerelease flag on a release and mark it as the repository's latest.
.github/workflows/promote-release.ymlif: !github.event.repository.forkblocks execution on forksgetCollaboratorPermissionLevelmust returnadminormaintain; fails otherwisegetReleaseByTagconfirms the tag exists and is not a draftupdateReleasewithprerelease: false+make_latest: 'true'; emits an info notice (not a failure) if the release was already non-prerelease, sincemake_latestis still meaningful