release-process

Automate a safe software release workflow by validating semver, checking NPM_TOKEN and branch state, tagging releases, publishing to GitHub, and verifying post-publish results to ensure deterministic, gated promotion from main to artifacts.

Deterministic release gating prevents bad deployments by enforcing strict, auditable checks like semver validation, environment token verification, and branch state confirmation before allowing any release tagging or artifact publishing to proceed.

Validate semver and environment tokens before publishing by running pre-release checks that confirm version compliance and verify NPM_TOKEN presence, ensuring unsafe or misconfigured deployments are blocked before artifact creation.

Yes, this release process is designed for multi-repo squads needing strict versioning, token validation, and release gating with rollback capabilities, providing an auditable, repeatable path from main to published artifacts across repositories.

If post-publish verification fails, rollback is handled as part of the deterministic release playbook, which applies guardrails throughout the release workflow to safely revert from a failed published artifact state back to main.

Your CI release pipeline fails when bump-build is enabled because the deterministic release playbook requires disabled bump-build to ensure strict versioning and semver validation compliance before proceeding to release tagging.