What's Changed

• Treat authors with zero (0) issue or PR count as first timers. (related to #111)

Full Changelog: v4.3.2...v4.3.3

What's Changed

• Fix internal contributor detection for private org members by @plbstl in #109
• chore(deps): bump the actions-minor group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in #102
• chore(deps): bump pnpm/action-setup from 5.0.0 to 6.0.8 by @dependabot[bot] in #108

Full Changelog: v4.3.1...v4.3.2

What's Changed

• fix: actually use the skip-internal-contributors action input by @plbstl in #107
• chore(deps): bump pnpm/action-setup from 4.2.0 to 5.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #95
• migrate to pnpm v11 in 88fec1a
• update deps in 8ca3e8a

Full Changelog: v4.3.0...v4.3.1

What's Changed

• feat: add option to skip internal contributors by @plbstl in #94
• improved logs

Full Changelog: v4.2.0...v4.3.0

Internal Improvements

• Updated NPM and GitHub Action dependencies to latest (including major bumps)
• Switched bundler from rollup to rolldown
• Recompiled dist with updated deps and tooling
• Added additional debug logs to improve troubleshooting
• Fixed test issues and improved coverage setup
• Minor CI and lint configuration updates

Documentation

• Cleaned up and simplified README
• Improved descriptions in action.yml

Full Changelog: v4.1.0...v4.2.0

Added

• issue-reactions and pr-reactions inputs.
  You can now configure reactions separately for issues and pull requests instead of using a shared reactions input.

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.1.0

This release improves flexibility and runtime support. It also modernizes the codebase.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

Runtime: Node 24

The action now runs on Node 24.
If you are using self-hosted runners, they must be on version v2.327.1 or later.

Closed Event Logic Updated

The action now comments on a closed issue or PR if it was the contributor’s historically first one.
Previously, the action only triggered if the contributor’s total count was exactly 1 at that moment.
This ensures the lifecycle of a true first contribution is always acknowledged, even if other contributions were opened later.

New fail-on-error Input

A new input, fail-on-error (default: false), controls whether the action fails the workflow when an error occurs.
Previous behavior: always fail.
New default: log the error without failing the job.

Added

• Commit history awareness.
  Existing repository committers are no longer mistakenly treated as first-time contributors.

• Emoji reactions.
  Automatically add reactions (e.g. heart, rocket) to first-time issues and PRs.

Internal Improvements

• Migrated from CommonJS to ESM
• Switched to Rollup for bundling
• Migrated test suite from Jest to Vitest
• Updated and pinned dependencies
• Hardened CI workflows (pinned SHAs)
• Added FOSSA license and security scanning

Documentation

• Rewritten README for clarity
• Expanded examples
• Added detailed security guidance for pull_request_target

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v4.0.0

⚠️ Breaking Change

First-time detection logic updated.

The action now properly distinguishes between users who have only opened issues and those who have opened pull requests. This improves accuracy when determining whether a contribution is truly their first.

Added

• {fc-author} placeholder.
  Reference the contributor’s username directly inside message inputs.

Improved

• Expanded test coverage
• Updated README with usage notes
• Minor documentation improvements

Full Changelog: v2...v3.0.0

⚠️ Breaking Change

Reworked the logic used to determine whether a user is a first-time contributor.
This makes first-contribution detection more accurate and consistent.

Improved

• Updated supported message inputs
• Documentation updates
• Test refactors and internal cleanup
• Dependency updates

Full Changelog: v1...v2.0.0

Initial Release

First public version of First Contribution.

Automatically responds to a user’s first issue or pull request in your repository.

Full Changelog: v0...v1