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brel
Release-Please-style release automation for GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo. One CLI computes your next version, updates your files, writes your changelog, and keeps a release PR ready to merge.
What is brel?
Section titled “What is brel?”brel (better releases) turns your Conventional Commits into releases. It scans your git history to compute the next SemVer version, bumps version strings in your JSON/TOML files, generates a changelog with git-cliff or changelogen, and maintains a single managed release PR — merge it, and brel can tag the release automatically. brel init scaffolds the whole CI workflow for you.
Works with your forge
First-class support for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Forgejo Actions — same config, same workflow. Forge guides →
Releases you can review
Nothing ships until you merge the release PR. Version, changelog, and file changes are all visible in the diff. How brel works →
One small TOML file
Sensible defaults, strict validation, and a selector syntax that updates versions anywhere in your JSON and TOML files. Configuration →