Ability to get notifications for Releases but not Pre-Releases #10776
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I would like this also. I watch maybe 100+ projects (and will watch more in the future) but mostly only want to know about long-term/stable/user (normally-numbered) not current/development/testing (hexadecimal hash commit-numbered) releases. I had to redirect all GitHub mail to a separate mailbox and just end up deleting most of it without reading. Not allowing to watch certain types only causes a pretty big waste of time. |
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Per-repo configurability with regexes or tags would be really cool, but that absolutely shouldn't be considered essential for progressing this feature. Releases already have a boolean pre-release flag. Splitting the existing release notification checkbox up to allow only releases, only pre-releases, or both is good enough for most people (for now) given how easy that should be to implement. |
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possible duplicate of #4993 |
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I'll approach this from the angle of a maintainer on a repo that is using pre-releases to simplify other things. We're using nightly pre-releases on Fluent Bit to simplify a lot of the other automation but getting reports of notification overload from this so yeah if we can make it easy to exclude "unofficial" releases for those who just want to be notified of a new version that would be great. fluent/fluent-bit#5160 is the original request on our side from our users with a few more in Slack channels, etc. |
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This seems to be a stale discussion, but I'd be interested to know, if this is something that's considered. |
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2.5 years later, this is still not implemented. For one project I'm following, I'm getting like a dozen pre release notifications a day. This is just annoying. |
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Same. I manage over 100 repors, and different devs have different workflows (which is fine by us). Getting notifications all the time isn't great, but there's no way to trigger an email only when a full release is tagged. That would be ideal for us and save us TONS of time. |
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This is really annoying. I am forced to unstar some projects because I get spammed about them few times a week, sometimes few times a day. I don't want any of that. |
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August 2025, still no changes. |
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December 2025, still no changes. |
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Hi
In extension to this I am often interested in keeping up to date with Releases in projects I watch, but only legitimate releases.
Today, using github "Watch Releases" with a lot of projects generates a lot of notifications.
For quick examples, https://github.com/vercel/next.js/ has loads of
canaryreleases, or https://github.com/actix/actix-web hasbetareleases.Would it be possible to have an option to ignore Pre-Releases but also releases when they contain such strings
(in the PATCH part when using sematic versionning )
rcorcandidatealphaorabetaorbcanaryorcpreviewBeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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