fix(release): populate changelog and server-changes on release/dispatch (#4204)

Author: claude[bot]

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -143,6 +143,21 @@ jobs:
           STEPS_GET_VERSION_OUTPUTS_IS_PRERELEASE: ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.is_prerelease }}
         run: |
           VERSION="${STEPS_GET_VERSION_OUTPUTS_PACKAGE_VERSION}"
+
+          # On the pull_request merge event RELEASE_PR_BODY is the merged "Version Packages"
+          # PR body, which holds the changelog. On a workflow_dispatch re-run (the recovery
+          # path after a failed merge-triggered run) there is no pull_request context, so it's
+          # empty. Fall back to the body of the most recently merged changeset-release/main PR
+          # so the "What's changed" section is still populated.
+          if [ -z "${RELEASE_PR_BODY}" ]; then
+            echo "RELEASE_PR_BODY is empty (workflow_dispatch re-run); fetching merged changeset-release/main PR body"
+            RELEASE_PR_BODY="$(gh pr list --repo triggerdotdev/trigger.dev \
+              --head changeset-release/main --state merged \
+              --json body,mergedAt --limit 10 \
+              -q 'sort_by(.mergedAt) | reverse | .[0].body')"
+          fi
+          export RELEASE_PR_BODY
+
           node scripts/generate-github-release.mjs "$VERSION" > /tmp/release-body.md
           PRERELEASE_FLAG=""
           if [ "${STEPS_GET_VERSION_OUTPUTS_IS_PRERELEASE}" = "true" ]; then

scripts/enhance-release-pr.mjs

@@ -183,28 +183,8 @@ async function getPrForCommit(commitSha) {
 // --- Parse .server-changes/ files ---
 
 async function parseServerChanges() {
-  const dir = join(ROOT_DIR, ".server-changes");
   const entries = [];
-
-  let files;
-  try {
-    files = await fs.readdir(dir);
-  } catch {
-    return entries;
-  }
-
-  // Collect file info and look up commits in parallel
-  const fileData = [];
-  for (const file of files) {
-    if (!file.endsWith(".md") || file === "README.md") continue;
-
-    const filePath = join(".server-changes", file);
-    const content = await fs.readFile(join(dir, file), "utf-8");
-    const parsed = parseFrontmatter(content);
-    if (!parsed.body.trim()) continue;
-
-    fileData.push({ filePath, parsed });
-  }
+  const fileData = await getServerChangeFileData();
 
   // Look up commits for all files in parallel
   const commits = await Promise.all(fileData.map((f) => getCommitForFile(f.filePath)));
@@ -232,6 +212,98 @@ async function parseServerChanges() {
   return entries;
 }
 
+async function getServerChangeFileData() {
+  // The changesets version command deletes .server-changes before this script
+  // enhances the release PR body. We combine files still live on disk with the
+  // ones recovered from the release branch diff, deduped by filename, rather
+  // than picking one source or the other. This is additive so a partial cleanup
+  // (some files deleted, some still live) can't silently drop entries. Live
+  // files win on collision since they are the current on-disk truth.
+  const [live, deleted] = await Promise.all([
+    getLiveServerChangeFileData(),
+    getDeletedServerChangeFileDataFromReleaseBranch(),
+  ]);
+
+  const byName = new Map();
+  for (const fileData of deleted) {
+    byName.set(fileData.filePath.split("/").pop(), fileData);
+  }
+  for (const fileData of live) {
+    byName.set(fileData.filePath.split("/").pop(), fileData);
+  }
+
+  return [...byName.values()].sort((a, b) => a.filePath.localeCompare(b.filePath));
+}
+
+async function getLiveServerChangeFileData() {
+  const dir = join(ROOT_DIR, ".server-changes");
+
+  let files;
+  try {
+    files = await fs.readdir(dir);
+  } catch {
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  const fileData = [];
+  for (const file of files.sort()) {
+    if (!file.endsWith(".md") || file === "README.md") continue;
+
+    const filePath = join(".server-changes", file);
+    const content = await fs.readFile(join(dir, file), "utf-8");
+    const parsed = parseFrontmatter(content);
+    if (!parsed.body.trim()) continue;
+
+    fileData.push({ filePath, parsed });
+  }
+
+  return fileData;
+}
+
+async function getDeletedServerChangeFileDataFromReleaseBranch() {
+  const baseRef = process.env.SERVER_CHANGES_BASE_REF || "origin/main";
+  const releaseRef = process.env.SERVER_CHANGES_RELEASE_REF || "origin/changeset-release/main";
+
+  let mergeBase;
+  let deletedFiles;
+  try {
+    mergeBase = await gitExec(["merge-base", baseRef, releaseRef]);
+    deletedFiles = await gitExec([
+      "diff",
+      "--name-only",
+      "--diff-filter=D",
+      `${mergeBase}..${releaseRef}`,
+      "--",
+      ".server-changes",
+    ]);
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error(
+      "[enhance-release-pr] failed to recover deleted server-changes from release branch:",
+      err
+    );
+    return [];
+  }
+
+  const fileData = [];
+  for (const filePath of deletedFiles.split("\n").filter(Boolean).sort()) {
+    const file = filePath.split("/").pop();
+    if (!file?.endsWith(".md") || file === "README.md") continue;
+
+    try {
+      const content = await gitExec(["show", `${mergeBase}:${filePath}`]);
+      const parsed = parseFrontmatter(content);
+      if (!parsed.body.trim()) continue;
+      fileData.push({ filePath, parsed });
+    } catch (err) {
+      // If an individual file cannot be recovered, skip it rather than hiding
+      // all other server changes.
+      console.error(`[enhance-release-pr] failed to read deleted server-change ${filePath}:`, err);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return fileData;
+}
+
 function parseFrontmatter(content) {
   const match = content.match(/^---\n([\s\S]*?)\n---\n?([\s\S]*)$/);
   if (!match) return { frontmatter: {}, body: content };

scripts/generate-github-release.mjs

@@ -239,6 +239,21 @@ async function main() {
   }
 
   const changesContent = extractChangesFromPrBody(prBody);
+
+  // Fail loudly when a stable (non-prerelease) release resolved no changelog. This
+  // guards against publishing an empty "What's changed" section, which previously
+  // happened silently on workflow_dispatch re-runs where RELEASE_PR_BODY was empty.
+  // Prereleases (any version with a hyphen, e.g. 4.5.0-rc.0) are allowed to be empty.
+  const isPrerelease = version.includes("-");
+  if (!changesContent && !isPrerelease) {
+    console.error(
+      `Error: no "What's changed" content could be resolved for v${version}. ` +
+        `RELEASE_PR_BODY was empty or contained no changelog entries. ` +
+        `Refusing to publish a release with an empty changelog.`
+    );
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+
   const contributors = getContributors(getPreviousVersion(version));
   const packages = getPublishedPackages();