release: 0.6.10

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -312,11 +312,23 @@ jobs:
             $0 ~ "^## \\[" ver "\\]" { on = 1; print; next }
             on && /^## \[/            { exit }
             on                         { print }
-          ' CHANGELOG.md > dist/RELEASE_NOTES.md
-          if [ ! -s dist/RELEASE_NOTES.md ]; then
+          ' CHANGELOG.md > dist/RELEASE_SECTION.md
+          if [ ! -s dist/RELEASE_SECTION.md ]; then
             echo "CHANGELOG.md has no '## [$ver]' section — write it before tagging $tag" >&2
             exit 1
           fi
+          # The release body is the hand-written summary at the top of the section, up to the line
+          # `<!-- release-notes-end -->`, then a link to the whole section: the whole section can pass
+          # GitHub's 125,000-character release-body limit (0.6.10's is 170 KB). A section with no such line is
+          # published whole. The link names the commit this job checked out (github.sha), the one the section was
+          # read from, so a manual run from a ref other than the tag still links the text it summarised; on a tag
+          # push that commit is the tag's.
+          if grep -qx '<!-- release-notes-end -->' dist/RELEASE_SECTION.md; then
+            sed '/^<!-- release-notes-end -->$/,$d' dist/RELEASE_SECTION.md > dist/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+            printf '\n---\n\nEvery entry of this release, with its measurement and its floors, is in [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/%s/blob/%s/CHANGELOG.md).\n' "${{ github.repository }}" "${{ github.sha }}" >> dist/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+          else
+            cp dist/RELEASE_SECTION.md dist/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+          fi
           wc -l dist/RELEASE_NOTES.md
 
       - uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.24)
 # The version string lives in exactly ONE place — this project() call. --version (main.cpp)
 # reads it via the generated version.h below; test/versioncheck.sh asserts the two never drift.
-project(ripwire VERSION 0.6.9 LANGUAGES C CXX)
+project(ripwire VERSION 0.6.10 LANGUAGES C CXX)
 
 # ---- language standards (C++23 for our own code / C11 for the vendored C dependencies) ----
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 23)