openvinotoolkit/openvino.genai/generate-release-notes

Generate Release Notes

Generates release notes for openvinotoolkit/openvino.genai from commits added after the latest release tag and writes them to a Markdown file.

Procedure

Step 1: List Release Commits

Run the bundled script from the repository root:

bash .github/skills/generate-release-notes/list_release_commits.sh

Step 2: Check Out the Release Branch

Read the Current release branch reported by the script and remove the upstream/ prefix to get the local release branch name. For example, use releases/2026/4 for upstream/releases/2026/4.

Check out the local release branch:

git checkout <release-branch>

If checkout fails for any reason, stop immediately without creating or modifying the release notes. Ask the user to check out the release branch cleanly, then rerun this skill.

Step 3: Generate Release Notes

If a commit subject does not provide enough information, inspect the currently checked-out release branch's source code, public APIs, tests, bindings, samples, or documentation to prepare an accurate description.

Group commits into categories:

• Features
• LLM Bench, WWB Tools
• JS Bindings
• Other Changes
• Docs Updates
• Discontinued
• Deprecated

Create a Markdown file named release_notes_YYYY.N.md with the following template:

# OpenVINO™ GenAI Release Notes YYYY.N
 
## Features
 
## LLM Bench, WWB Tools
 
## JS Bindings
 
## Other Changes
 
## Docs Updates
 
## Discontinued
 
## Deprecated