From ea165e0bccb59d13b3fafbeb70c8692a801e1aa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rcourtman <courtmanr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:22:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix release notes extraction in workflow

- Replace sed with awk for more reliable multiline extraction
- Use temp file to capture full script output
- Extract content between separator lines correctly
- Fixes empty release notes in draft releases

Previous issue: sed pattern wasn't matching the separator lines,
resulting in empty RELEASE_NOTES variable.

New approach: Use awk to capture everything between the two separator
lines, handling multiline content properly.

Related to #671 (automated release workflow)
---
 .github/workflows/release.yml | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index be23c4d..e03f9bd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -174,8 +174,15 @@ jobs:
 
           echo "Comparing v${{ inputs.version }} with ${PREVIOUS_TAG}..."
 
-          # Generate notes and capture output
-          RELEASE_NOTES=$(./scripts/generate-release-notes.sh ${{ inputs.version }} "${PREVIOUS_TAG}" 2>&1 | sed -n '/^Generated release notes:/,/^━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━$/{ /^Generated release notes:/d; /^━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━$/d; p; }')
+          # Generate notes - script writes output between separator lines
+          # We need to capture everything between the separators
+          TEMP_OUTPUT=$(mktemp)
+          ./scripts/generate-release-notes.sh ${{ inputs.version }} "${PREVIOUS_TAG}" > "$TEMP_OUTPUT" 2>&1
+
+          # Extract notes between separator lines (everything between the two ━━━ lines)
+          RELEASE_NOTES=$(awk '/^Generated release notes:/{flag=1;next}/^━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━$/{if(flag==1){flag=2}else if(flag==2){flag=3}}flag==2' "$TEMP_OUTPUT")
+
+          rm -f "$TEMP_OUTPUT"
 
           # Save to output (escape for GitHub Actions multiline)
           echo "RELEASE_NOTES<<EOF" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT