ci: fix release notes diff range after Release PR flow

[birkskyum]

Fix scripts/create-github-release.mjs previous-release detection so GitHub release notes only contain changes since the prior release.

After moving to a separate changeset PR the commit title for releases is now ci: Version Packages where previously it was ci: changeset release. We have to adjust the create release script, so it also looks for ci: Version Packages so that it gets the right diff.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated release automation tooling to refine how release commits are identified and filtered during changelog generation.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR updates the GitHub release creation script to recognize both ci: Version Packages and ci: changeset release commits when discovering release commits and filtering changelog entries, expanding from previously matching only changeset release commits.

Changes

Release commit detection and filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Git log filter and commit skip conditions scripts/create-github-release.mjs	The git log command for release logs is updated to match commits starting with either ci: Version Packages or ci: changeset release, and the changelog filtering skip condition is expanded to ignore both commit types.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• TanStack/router#7404: The main PR's create-github-release.mjs updates its git log-based discovery/filtering of ci: changeset release (and ci: Version Packages) commits, which is directly tied to the retrieved PR's release workflow changes that create version/publish commits with the ci: changeset release commit message.

Suggested reviewers

• schiller-manuel

Poem

🐰 A script that once searched for just one kind of commit,
Now finds both the packages and changesets with git,
Two filters aligned, like lettuce and hay,
Release logs grow broader in every new way! 📝

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and specifically describes the main fix: updating release notes diff range detection after changing to a Release PR workflow where commit titles changed from 'ci: changeset release' to 'ci: Version Packages'.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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☁️ Nx Cloud last updated this comment at 2026-05-21 00:21:24 UTC

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