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The 3.12.1.0 release published to Maven Central and pushed its tag, then failed creating the GitHub Release. No real release has passed this step on either line yet, and it has two bugs:

• github_release.py re-read release.properties, which release:perform had already deleted. It now calls signing.verify_release(version), the same signed-commit and signed-tag check without that file. The test stubs only that check, so the code that read the file now runs.
• gh release create refuses --notes-from-tag together with --repo, and the tag message is only the maven-release-plugin line. It now uses --generate-notes --notes-start-tag <previous four-part tag on the line>, titled by the tag, like 3.11.5.20 and 4.19.2.3. The fake gh rejects the old flag pair.
• The release README's recovery steps no longer ask to recreate release.properties.

Twin PR on scylla-3.x: #1339.

Verified with python3 -m unittest discover -s scripts/release -p 'test_*.py' (all pass) and guard.py check. Reverting either fix fails the tests. Against the real repo, verify_release('3.12.1.0') passes without release.properties and rejects an unsigned commit in range. The previous-tag lookup finds 3.11.5.20 for 3.12.1.0 and 4.19.2.2 for 4.19.2.3. 3.12.1.0's GitHub Release was created by hand with the new flags (minus --repo). Not run: a real release through the workflow.

Refs: #1338

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• Bug Fixes
  • Release publishing now verifies the signed release tag and generates release notes from the previous matching version tag, rather than using notes from the current tag.
• Documentation
  • Updated release recovery instructions to use the recovered signed history and original release baseline, without restoring release.properties.

The publisher now verifies the signed release tag and, when creating a release, generates notes starting from the previous matching four-part version tag. Recovery instructions no longer require restoring release.properties. Tests cover the updated verification and release creation arguments.

Possibly related issues

• ci: GitHub Release step fails after release:perform deletes release.properties #1338: The issue describes failures in the GitHub Release step after release:perform removes release.properties and a release-notes creation failure. This PR updates both areas.

Possibly related PRs

• scylladb/java-driver#1313: Changes release-note generation in the same GitHub release creation call.
• scylladb/java-driver#1302: Introduces the signing and release workflow that this publisher now uses to verify the signed tag.
• scylladb/java-driver#1305: Changes the publication flow around release:perform and the later GitHub publication step.

Priority: Normal

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to 17d4c

Release notes can omit part of the release history when prerelease tags are present.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the CI GitHub Release fix and matches the primary changes.
Description check		The description directly explains both GitHub Release failures, the fixes, tests, and validation limits.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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74-74: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Restrict the notes baseline to numeric release tags.

The --match glob accepts tags such as 4.19.2.2-rc1. If such a tag is the closest ancestor, --notes-start-tag starts after that tag and omits changes since the previous numeric release. Filter candidates to the major.minor.patch.revision format before selecting since.

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Review comment at @scripts/release/github_release.py at line 74:
Update the `since` baseline selection to consider only tags matching the numeric
major.minor.patch.revision format before choosing the closest ancestor,
excluding prerelease tags such as those with `-rc` suffixes.

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- Line 74: Update the `since` baseline selection to consider only tags matching
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