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• Every repository should version the same way below 1.0: fixes bump the patch, features and breaking changes bump the minor.
• Leaving bump-minor-pre-major to each repository let a breaking change silently ship 1.0.0, which should always be a deliberate decision.

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
This is a breaking change for any repo using the shared action without explicit bump-minor-pre-major: true, and it alters enforced versioning semantics for pre-1.0 releases organization-wide.

Overview
The release-please action now requires bump-minor-pre-major: true on every package (effective value), alongside the existing include-v-in-tag rule. Configs that omit it or set it to false fail validation, because release-please’s default would let a breaking change jump to 1.0.0 instead of a minor bump.

Policy implementation: bump-minor-pre-major moves from an optional per-repo strategy flag into releaseRules with required: true and native fallback false, so omission is treated as non-compliant and must be set explicitly.

Docs: The README states the shared pre-1.0 behavior—fixes → patch, features/breaking → minor—and that reaching 1.0.0 should be a deliberate Release-As, not an accidental major bump.

Tests: Fixtures and CLI/runtime-guard cases include the flag; new coverage rejects omitted bump-minor-pre-major; policy rejection tests treat false like other mandatory true settings.

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Walkthrough

The release policy now requires bump-minor-pre-major and include-v-in-tag to resolve to true. The documentation describes pre-1.0.0 version bumps and the explicit Release-As decision to reach 1.0.0. Tests cover the required setting and related policy checks.

Changes

Pre-1.0.0 Release Policy

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Release rule and documentation actions/release-please/lib/index.mjs, actions/release-please/README.md	The release rule sets bump-minor-pre-major as required, with a fallback of false. The documentation describes the required settings, pre-1.0.0 version bumps, and the Release-As decision to reach 1.0.0.
Policy validation tests tests/node/release-please/cli.test.mjs, tests/node/release-please/index.test.mjs, tests/node/release-please/runtime-guard.test.mjs	The tests include bump-minor-pre-major: true in compatible configurations and check required-setting, rejection, and runtime-guard cases.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 1e35a

A permitted configuration can release 1.0.0 without an explicit decision or bump a fix as a minor release. Reject the conflicting strategies before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: the release-please configuration now requires minor version bumps before 1.0. It uses the feat scope and a short, specific phrase. The raw summary confirms the validat…
Description check		The description states the intent: versioning below 1.0 should be the same across repositories, with fixes bumping the patch and features and breaking changes bumping the minor. It also explains why t…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title names the main change: the release-please configuration now requires minor version bumps before 1.0. It uses the feat scope and a short, specific phrase. The raw summary confirms the validation policy requires bump-minor-pre-major to be true, which matches the title.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description states the intent: versioning below 1.0 should be the same across repositories, with fixes bumping the patch and features and breaking changes bumping the minor. It also explains why the bump-minor-pre-major setting should not be left to each repository. This relates directly to the README, validation, and test changes in the summary.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Major · Reject versioning strategies that override the required bump policy. · index.mjs:109-110

actions/release-please/lib/index.mjs:109-110
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject versioning strategies that override the required bump policy.

A package can pass validation with "bump-minor-pre-major": true and "versioning": "always-bump-major". Release Please’s always-bump-major strategy then selects a major bump regardless of that flag, so a release from 0.3.0 can become 1.0.0 without Release-As. The permitted always-bump-minor strategy also makes fixes bump the minor version. Reject strategies that violate the stated policy, or narrow the policy claim to the strategies it actually covers. (github.com)

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Review comment at @actions/release-please/lib/index.mjs around lines 109 - 110:
Update the versioning validation around the always-bump-patch check so packages
using bump-minor-pre-major cannot select always-bump-major or always-bump-minor;
retain the existing rejection of always-bump-patch and allow strategies that
preserve the required bump policy.

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Review comments at @actions/release-please/lib/index.mjs:
- Around line 109-110: Update the versioning validation around the
always-bump-patch check so packages using bump-minor-pre-major cannot select
always-bump-major or always-bump-minor; retain the existing rejection of
always-bump-patch and allow strategies that preserve the required bump policy.

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