10.3.0 doesn't support a stage-then-release approach in GitHub Actions

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I have been doing a two-step process to use psr to stage changes before making a release as discussed in #1125, but 10.3.0 introduced a breaking change for this workflow

Expected behavior

It should properly stage changes without requiring a commit_sha

Actual behavior

A commit_sha is required as of 39b647b when running semantic-release version ... inside of a GitHub Actions pipeline. If I set GITHUB_OUTPUT locally then I can see the error:

$ GITHUB_OUTPUT=foo uv run --frozen semantic-release version --no-changelog --skip-build --no-commit --no-tag --no-push --no-vcs-release
WARNING:root:Found .git/ in higher parent directory rather than provided in configuration.
[10:11:06] WARNING  Token value is missing!                                                                                                              config.py:779
WARNING:semantic_release:Token value is missing!
1.5.0
The next version is: 1.5.0! 🚀
Skipping build due to --skip-build flag
::ERROR:: some required outputs were not set: commit_sha
Run semantic-release in very verbose mode (-vv) to see the full traceback.

My team is experiencing the same issue. We run python-semantic-release to determine the tag to use for builds generated as part of testing PRs, using the following inputs:

uses: python-semantic-release/[email protected]
with:
  github_token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN_PYTHON_SEMANTIC_RELEASE }}
  prerelease_token: pr-${{ steps.short-sha.outputs.SHORT_SHA }}
  commit: false
  tag: false
  push: false
  changelog: false
  strict: true
  verbosity: 0

Thanks, this was not intentional but an unexpected side effect. Will push a patch tomorrow.

fix(github-actions): refactor the action output error checking for no…

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10.3.0 doesn't support a stage-then-release approach in GitHub Actions #1307

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10.3.0 doesn't support a stage-then-release approach in GitHub Actions #1307

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gbrown-lendica commented on Aug 4, 2025

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codejedi365 commented on Aug 6, 2025

🎉 This issue has been resolved in v10.3.1 🎉

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