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Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5.5 94f676d741 A release asks for a GitHub star in its Discord post too
The Discord announcement now carries a star ask under the download
link, with the reason. The release page's ask opens on a heart and
closes on a thank-you.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-13 21:04:41 -04:00

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# Puts the downloadable builds on the repository's Releases page.
#
# Nothing here leaves GitHub: a release is exactly as visible as the repository it sits
# on. This is *not* the PyPI publish — that is `release.yml`, it is a separate act, and it
# does not run from here.
#
# Triggered by pushing a version tag, which is the moment a release exists in git anyway:
#
# git tag -a v0.3.0 -m "MeshTerm 0.3.0"
# git push origin v0.3.0
#
# The binaries are built by `installers.yml`, called rather than copied, so the files
# people download are made exactly the way the ones CI checks on every push are.
#
# Once the release exists, `website` puts it on meshterm.net: it rebuilds that site from
# the tagged tree — the landing and About pages carry the version — and pushes the result
# to jpmartineau/meshterm.net, which GitHub Pages serves. It writes with a deploy key
# scoped to that one repository (secret SITE_DEPLOY_KEY); that repo's README makes one.
name: GitHub release
on:
push:
tags: ["v*"]
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
tag:
description: "Existing tag to build a release from (e.g. v0.2.0)"
required: true
type: string
prerelease:
description: "Mark as a pre-release (keeps it out of 'Latest')"
type: boolean
default: false
permissions:
contents: read
jobs:
build:
uses: ./.github/workflows/installers.yml
publish:
name: create the release
needs: build
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
permissions:
# The one job that needs it: creating a release writes to the repository.
contents: write
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ inputs.tag || github.ref }}
# Every platform's artifact, flattened into one directory of files to attach.
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
# The build uploads one artifact nobody should ever download: the unsigned
# Windows binary it hands to SignPath. Everything meant for the release page is
# named `meshterm-…`, so the pattern is the filter.
pattern: meshterm-*
path: artifacts
merge-multiple: true
- name: Gather the binaries and their checksums
id: gather
shell: bash
run: |
tag="${{ inputs.tag || github.ref_name }}"
version="${tag#v}"
echo "tag=$tag" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "version=$version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
mkdir -p release
find artifacts -type f -exec mv {} release/ \;
ls -lh release/
cd release
# A second, version-less copy of every binary. GitHub's evergreen download URL,
# `releases/latest/download/<name>`, resolves against an exact asset name and
# nothing else — so a link that always fetches the newest build needs a name
# that never moves. That is what lets the README, the website and anyone's
# install script say `meshterm-macos-arm64` once instead of naming a version
# that goes stale the moment the next release lands. The version-stamped file
# stays beside it: it is the one you want on disk when you keep several builds
# around, and it is what the release-notes install block points at, since that
# page is about this release rather than the latest one.
made=0
for versioned in "meshterm-$version"-*; do
case "$versioned" in *.sha256) continue ;; esac
[ -e "$versioned" ] || continue
stable="meshterm-${versioned#meshterm-$version-}"
cp "$versioned" "$stable"
sha256sum "$stable" > "$stable.sha256"
made=$((made + 1))
done
# Nothing matched means the tag and `meshterm.__version__` disagree, which is a
# broken release either way: the notes below are about to name files by version
# that the build did not produce. Fail here, where it is one line to read.
if [ "$made" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "::error::No binary named meshterm-$version-*; $tag and meshterm.__version__ disagree."
exit 1
fi
echo "$made version-less aliases made"
# One combined checksum file is easier to verify against than ten loose ones.
cat *.sha256 > SHA256SUMS && rm -f *.sha256
- name: Take the release notes from the changelog
id: notes
shell: bash
env:
VERSION: ${{ steps.gather.outputs.version }}
run: |
# The section for this version, between its own heading and the next one. If the
# changelog has nothing for it, say so plainly rather than inventing notes.
#
# Extracted once, into the file, and the *file* is what gets tested. It used to
# run twice — once down a `| sed | head -1 | grep -q .` pipeline to decide, then
# again for real — and this step runs under `bash -e -o pipefail`, where that
# pipeline is a race it can lose. `head -1` exits the moment it has its line and
# closes the pipe; if `sed` still has bytes to write it dies on SIGPIPE, pipefail
# promotes that to a failed condition, and a version with a perfectly good
# changelog section publishes "No changelog entry" instead. It only bites once a
# section outgrows one buffered write, which is why every entry under 4 KB was
# fine and 0.3.1 was not — while 0.3.0, the same size, happened to win.
awk -v v="$VERSION" '
$0 ~ "^## \\[" v "\\]" {found=1; next}
found && /^## \[/ {exit}
found && /^\[[^]]+\]: / {next}
found {print}
' CHANGELOG.md > notes.md
if ! grep -q '[^[:space:]]' notes.md; then
echo "No changelog entry for $VERSION." > notes.md
fi
echo "--- notes ---"; cat notes.md
# Most people who open a release page came to install the thing, so the commands go
# above the changelog rather than in a link to a README that names some other
# version. Written here rather than kept as prose anywhere means they can only ever
# name *this* release: the tag interpolates, so the URLs are the assets attached to
# the very page they are printed on, and there is no example version to go stale.
#
# The heredoc is quoted, so the markdown's own backticks stay backticks instead of
# becoming command substitution, and the two placeholders are filled by `sed`
# afterwards. Neither a tag nor a version can contain a slash, so the substitution
# needs no escaping.
- name: Open the notes with this release's install commands
shell: bash
env:
TAG: ${{ steps.gather.outputs.tag }}
VERSION: ${{ steps.gather.outputs.version }}
run: |
cat > install.md.in <<'INSTALL_MD'
## Install
One file, no Python needed.
**macOS** — paste these into Terminal. Use `curl`, **not your browser**: a browser
flags the download and macOS then refuses to open it at all, and on Sequoia and
later right-click → Open no longer gets you past it. `curl` flags nothing, so it
simply runs.
```bash
curl -fL -o meshterm https://github.com/jpmartineau/MeshTerm/releases/download/@TAG@/meshterm-@VERSION@-macos-arm64
chmod +x meshterm
./meshterm
```
That is the build for Apple silicon Macs (M1 and later). On an Intel Mac, swap
`arm64` for `x64`.
**Linux** — the same three lines with `linux-x64`, or `linux-arm64` on a uConsole
or another 64-bit ARM handheld.
```bash
curl -fL -o meshterm https://github.com/jpmartineau/MeshTerm/releases/download/@TAG@/meshterm-@VERSION@-linux-x64
chmod +x meshterm
./meshterm
```
**Windows** — download [meshterm-@VERSION@-windows-x64.exe](https://github.com/jpmartineau/MeshTerm/releases/download/@TAG@/meshterm-@VERSION@-windows-x64.exe), then run it from Windows
Terminal or PowerShell rather than by double-clicking, so you can read anything it
says on the way up.
```powershell
.\meshterm-@VERSION@-windows-x64.exe
```
**Cardputer Zero** — install MeshTerm from M5Stack's app store on the device. The
same package is attached below as `meshterm_@VERSION@-1_arm64.deb`.
Every binary below is listed in `SHA256SUMS`. The version-less copies —
`meshterm-macos-arm64` and its four siblings — are the same binaries under a name
that never changes, for anything that wants whichever release is newest without
being told its number. [Installing with pip or pipx, and the rest of the
detail](https://github.com/jpmartineau/MeshTerm#install).
---
## What changed
INSTALL_MD
sed -e "s/@TAG@/$TAG/g" -e "s/@VERSION@/$VERSION/g" install.md.in > install.md
# One ask, at the end, with the reason. The install commands keep the top of
# the page, and the changelog stays a record of what changed.
cat > star.md <<'STAR_MD'
---
You ❤️ MeshTerm? Please give [the repository](https://github.com/jpmartineau/MeshTerm) a ⭐. It helps other MeshCore users find it, because GitHub ranks projects by stars in its search and topic pages. 🙏
STAR_MD
cat install.md notes.md star.md > body.md
echo "--- body ---"; cat body.md
- name: Create it
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
TAG: ${{ steps.gather.outputs.tag }}
PRERELEASE: ${{ inputs.prerelease && '--prerelease' || '' }}
run: |
gh release create "$TAG" release/* \
--title "MeshTerm ${TAG#v}" \
--notes-file body.md \
--verify-tag \
$PRERELEASE
echo "https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}/releases/tag/$TAG"
# The Cardputer Zero's package goes to M5Stack's app store. `czdev publish` puts it in a
# pull request on CardputerZero/packages, and the store merges an update when its checks
# pass. scripts/cardputer-zero/store-publish.py runs czdev with two corrections and stops
# if the store already has this version or a pull request for it is open. Thus a second
# run of a release opens no second pull request.
store:
name: send the Cardputer package to the app store
needs: publish
if: ${{ !inputs.prerelease }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 15
env:
# A token of jpmartineau with the public_repo scope: it uploads to the fork of
# CardputerZero/packages and opens the pull request as its author.
CARDPUTER_STORE_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CARDPUTER_STORE_TOKEN }}
# The czdev that store-publish.py corrects. Change the two together.
APPBUILDER_COMMIT: 64edc2292628b436d3e624b150faeed2d60c31af
steps:
- name: Check for the token
run: |
if [ -z "$CARDPUTER_STORE_TOKEN" ]; then
echo "::error::CARDPUTER_STORE_TOKEN is not set; scripts/cardputer-zero/store-publish.py says what it needs."
exit 1
fi
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ inputs.tag || github.ref }}
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
name: meshterm-cardputer-zero
path: deb
- name: Get czdev
run: |
git init -q appbuilder
git -C appbuilder fetch -q --depth 1 \
https://github.com/m5stack/CardputerZero-AppBuilder.git "$APPBUILDER_COMMIT"
git -C appbuilder checkout -q FETCH_HEAD
- name: Publish
run: |
python3 scripts/cardputer-zero/store-publish.py --czdev appbuilder \
--deb deb/meshterm_*_arm64.deb
website:
name: put the version on meshterm.net
needs: publish
# A pre-release stays out of "Latest", so it stays off the landing page too.
if: ${{ !inputs.prerelease }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 10
steps:
- name: Check for the deploy key
env:
SITE_DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.SITE_DEPLOY_KEY }}
run: |
if [ -z "$SITE_DEPLOY_KEY" ]; then
echo "::error::SITE_DEPLOY_KEY is not set; the meshterm.net README says how to make it."
exit 1
fi
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ inputs.tag || github.ref }}
path: meshterm
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
repository: jpmartineau/meshterm.net
ssh-key: ${{ secrets.SITE_DEPLOY_KEY }}
path: site
- uses: actions/setup-python@v5
with:
python-version: "3.14"
- name: Rebuild the site from this release
run: |
python -m pip install --quiet -r site/requirements.txt
python site/build.py --meshterm meshterm
- name: Publish it
working-directory: site
env:
TAG: ${{ inputs.tag || github.ref_name }}
run: |
git add -A
if git diff --cached --quiet; then
echo "meshterm.net already shows ${TAG#v}."
exit 0
fi
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "41898341+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
git commit -m "MeshTerm ${TAG#v}"
git push