get-next-version gets the next version for your repository according to semantic versioning based on conventional commits.

Go to the releases page, find the download url for your architecture and operating system, and copy it.

Then, run the following steps:

# Download the latest release (insert the url here)
$ curl -o get-next-version <URL>

# Ensure the binary is executable
$ chmod a+x get-next-version

# Move the binary to the application directory
$ sudo mv get-next-version /usr/local/bin

Go to the repository and run get-next-version. The tool will analyse the history of your repository and output the next version for your release.

$ get-next-version

Optionally, you may hand over the --repository (or short -r) flag to specify the path to the repository you want to analyse, if it is not in the current working directory.

$ get-next-version --repository <PATH>

By default, output will be shown in a human-readable format. If you want to show the output in a machine-readable format, you can use the --format (or short -f) flag:

# Show output in JSON format
$ get-next-version --format json

# Show output in GitHub Action format
$ get-next-version --format github-action

For convenience, you may use the GitHub Action when running get-next-version inside a workflow on GitHub.

⚠️ When cloning the repository, make sure to set the fetch-depth option to 0, otherwise get-next-version will not be able to analyse the history of the repository!

An example workflow that makes use of the GitHub Action is shown below:

name: Example workflow

on: pull_request

jobs:
  example:
    name: Example
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Clone repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v3
      with:
        fetch-depth: 0
    - name: Get next version
      id: get_next_version
      uses: thenativeweb/get-next-version
    - name: Show the next version
      run: |
        echo ${{ steps.get_next_version.outputs.version }}
        echo ${{ steps.get_next_version.outputs.hasNextVersion }}