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Streamline releases with automatic-releases

Name: Streamline releases with automatic-releases
Author: laminas

Get automated release process for laminas projects as a GitHub action, ideal for PHP startup founders

From the repo · “Automated release process for `laminas/` projects, usable as github action”

144 stars22 forksPHPGuide quality 9/10 · reviewed Jul 3Updated 10/20/2026100% free · open source

What it does

Automates the release process for Laminas projects using GitHub Actions, streamlining versioning, tagging, and deployment.

When to use it

•When you need to ensure consistent versioning across your Laminas project
•As part of a CI/CD pipeline to automate deployment after code changes
•To simplify the process of creating and managing releases for your PHP application

Ready-to-paste prompt

.github/workflows/laminas-releases.yml file contents: `name: Release
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Release
        uses: laminas/automatic-releases@v1`

Heads up: Ensure you have the correct permissions and that your GitHub repository has the necessary secrets configured, such as `GITHUB_TOKEN`, to authenticate and authorize the automatic-releases GitHub Action

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Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

✅ Light setup

Installs with a command or two; your AI agent can do it for you.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/automatic-releases && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/automatic-releases/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/automatic-releases/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Streamline releases with automatic-releases works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Streamline releases with automatic-releases is a small PHP project (~2.8k lines across 65 code files, plus 47 test files). Setup is light: runs with Docker. Last commit this month, Other license, has a test suite.

Size

Small codebase

~2.8k lines · 65 code files · 23 min skim

Setup

Light setup

Runs with Docker.

Runs on

PHP · Docker

No API keys detected

PHP 97%Gherkin 2%

Where to start reading

1
README.md
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
action.yml
Where the program starts running
3
composer.json
Dependencies and the commands it exposes
4
src/Changelog/BumpAndCommitChangelogVersion.php
Inside src/ — the main logic begins here
5
examples/.github/workflows/release-on-milestone-closed-triggering-release-event.yml
A worked example — copy this to get going

What's in each folder

src/Core code — the actual logic64 files

bin/Command-line entry points1 files

docs/Documentation3 files

examples/Examples you can copy2 files

feature/Folder2 files

test/Tests — proof it works48 files

.github/CI / automation (GitHub Actions)6 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksDocker readyExamples includedOther licenseUpdated this month

Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

✅ Light setup

Installs with a command or two; your AI agent can do it for you.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/automatic-releases && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/automatic-releases/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/automatic-releases/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

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Details

Creator

laminas

Language

PHP