Prepare a Production Release

Cut a versioned release from main with documented changes, manifests, release notes, a git tag, and a Slack announcement.

Merge the feature into main


git checkout main
git merge --no-ff feature/my-feature

Generate changelog entries


sfdt changelog generate

AI reads recent commits and proposes [Unreleased] entries, categorized into Added / Changed / Fixed / Deprecated / Removed / Security. You approve before they’re appended.

Cut the version in the changelog


sfdt changelog release 1.5.0

Moves [Unreleased] to a dated [1.5.0] section.

Run the release workflow


sfdt release 1.5.0

This generates versioned manifests in manifest/release/, optionally writes AI release notes to release-notes/, then walks you through commit → tag (v1.5.0) → deploy → push. Every git step is an optional confirm prompt.

Announce


sfdt notify release-created --version 1.5.0

sfdt notify requires features.notifications: true and a Slack webhook URL in config. See sfdt notify.