From a1570e4f596ea0a9044e16401331499ae82a79f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolai Emil Damm <nikolaiemildamm@icloud.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:48:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(release): treat `type!:` commits as breaking
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semantic-release's default preset recognises a breaking change only from a
`BREAKING CHANGE:` footer, so a bang-style commit produced NO release at all —
a breaking change shipped unversioned and nobody downstream learned the API
broke. The org's commit-message ruleset explicitly permits the bang, so
contributors are invited to write exactly the form that silently does nothing.

Only the bang forms change: feat: -> minor, fix: -> patch,
docs:/chore:/ci: -> no release, and the BREAKING CHANGE: footer still works.
Any existing release rules are preserved — this repo's `revert` rule included,
verified against its real config.

Part of devantler-tech/actions#653

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .releaserc | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.releaserc b/.releaserc
index 553f9e0..d5108b9 100644
--- a/.releaserc
+++ b/.releaserc
@@ -7,8 +7,18 @@
       "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
       {
         "releaseRules": [
-          { "type": "revert", "release": "patch" }
-        ]
+          {
+            "type": "revert",
+            "release": "patch"
+          },
+          {
+            "breaking": true,
+            "release": "major"
+          }
+        ],
+        "parserOpts": {
+          "breakingHeaderPattern": "^(\\w*)(?:\\((.*)\\))?!: (.*)$"
+        }
       }
     ]
   ]