I keep getting tags instead of releases

[Dun-sin]

Getting this error and I don't understand why

[9:29:33 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "publish" of plugin "@semantic-release/npm"
[9:29:33 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "publish" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[9:29:33 AM] [semantic-release] › ✖  Failed step "publish" of plugin "@semantic-release/github"
[9:29:33 AM] [semantic-release] › ✖  An error occurred while running semantic-release: RequestError [HttpError]: Bad credentials
    at /home/runner/work/DeepLearn/DeepLearn/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:78:21
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) {
  status: 401,
  response: {
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/Dun-sin/DeepLearn/releases',
    status: 401,
    headers: {
      'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
      'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset',
      connection: 'close',
      'content-length': '80',
      'content-security-policy': "default-src 'none'",
      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
      date: 'Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:29:33 GMT',
      'referrer-policy': 'origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin',
      server: 'GitHub.com',
      'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload',
      vary: 'Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With',
      'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
      'x-frame-options': 'deny',
      'x-github-media-type': 'github.v3; format=json',
      'x-github-request-id': 'BC18:8DBE:37E6F6:7355ED:63D78DFD',
      'x-ratelimit-limit': '60',
      'x-ratelimit-remaining': '59',
      'x-ratelimit-reset': '1675074573',
      'x-ratelimit-resource': 'core',
      'x-ratelimit-used': '1',
      'x-xss-protection': '0'
    },
    data: {
      message: 'Bad credentials',
      documentation_url: 'https://docs.github.com/rest'
    }
  },
  request: {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/Dun-sin/DeepLearn/releases',
    headers: {
      accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
      'user-agent': 'octokit-rest.js/19.0.7 octokit-core.js/4.2.0 Node.js/16.19.0 (linux; x64)',
      authorization: 'token [REDACTED]',
      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
    },
    body: '{"tag_name":"v1.0.0","target_commitish":"main","name":"v1.0.0","body":"# 1.0.0 (2023-01-30)\\n\\n\\n### Features\\n\\n* add tailwind css and remove default code ([befb306](https://github.com/Dun-sin/DeepLearn/commit/befb30612cc2d9c8f8539f89d1a71a5aacbde8f5))\\n\\n\\n\\n","prerelease":false}',
    request: { agent: undefined, hook: [Function: bound bound register] }
  },
  pluginName: '@semantic-release/github'
}
RequestError [HttpError]: Bad credentials
    at /home/runner/work/DeepLearn/DeepLearn/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:78:21
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) {
  status: 401,
  response: {
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/Dun-sin/DeepLearn/releases',
    status: 401,
    headers: {
      'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
      'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset',
      connection: 'close',
      'content-length': '80',
      'content-security-policy': "default-src 'none'",
      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
      date: 'Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:29:33 GMT',
      'referrer-policy': 'origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin',
      server: 'GitHub.com',
      'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload',
      vary: 'Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With',
      'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
      'x-frame-options': 'deny',
      'x-github-media-type': 'github.v3; format=json',
      'x-github-request-id': 'BC18:8DBE:37E6F6:7355ED:63D78DFD',
      'x-ratelimit-limit': '60',
      'x-ratelimit-remaining': '59',
      'x-ratelimit-reset': '1675074573',
      'x-ratelimit-resource': 'core',
      'x-ratelimit-used': '1',
      'x-xss-protection': '0'
    },
    data: {
      message: 'Bad credentials',
      documentation_url: 'https://docs.github.com/rest'
    }
  },
  request: {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/Dun-sin/DeepLearn/releases',
    headers: {
      accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
      'user-agent': 'octokit-rest.js/19.0.7 octokit-core.js/4.2.0 Node.js/16.19.0 (linux; x64)',
      authorization: 'token [REDACTED]',
      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
    },
    body: '{"tag_name":"v1.0.0","target_commitish":"main","name":"v1.0.0","body":"# 1.0.0 (2023-01-30)\\n\\n\\n### Features\\n\\n* add tailwind css and remove default code ([befb306](https://github.com/Dun-sin/DeepLearn/commit/befb30612cc2d9c8f8539f89d1a71a5aacbde8f5))\\n\\n\\n\\n","prerelease":false}',
    request: { agent: undefined, hook: [Function: bound bound register] }
  },
  pluginName: '@semantic-release/github'
}
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.```

[ianaa]

@Dun-sin have you found a solution to this issue? my semantic-release workflows started failing recently and I also don't understand the reason. The release commit and the tag are pushed to the repo, the new package version is published to npm, but creating a github release fails.

[Dun-sin]

@ianaa that's exactly what's happening to me, but sadly I haven't found a solution yet

[travi]

ensure that the token that you are providing to semantic-release has contents-write permission

[Dun-sin]

ensure that the token that you are providing to semantic-release has contents-write permission

I cross-checked that, and the token has the proper permissions, do you think there's something else I'm missing?

[travi]

either your token does not have the proper permissions, or your pipeline is passing the wrong token to semantic-release. perhaps you need to set persist-credentials to false? see https://semantic-release.gitbook.io/semantic-release/recipes/ci-configurations/github-actions#pushing-package.json-changes-to-a-master-branch

[jwalker2022]

When Github says their fine grained access tokens are beta, they mean it. A heads up for anyone integrating Github plugins into your repository: do not use the fine grained access tokens. (They labeled by Github as beta) They create flustering results; for example, I have hunted through Github issues and tried various Github actions to determine why the skeleton repository's workflow's semantic-release job failed. Come to find out, the token didn't grant write access to the repository even though I authorized the token, the fine-grained token, for the repository. So I switched back to the classic token; the semantic-release job parsed the commits and published a release. 🙌:skin-tone-6:

Oh, and Github fails with a 404 error. The only way I found the authorization error was I configured the workflow job to no longer persist credentials to the repository. Then the workflow provided a more descriptive error message: stderr: 'remote: Write access to repository not granted.\n'. After reading that I obliterated the fine-grain access token for a classic token. Everything worked perfectly.

[Dun-sin]

I think it's an issue from the project itself, because I didn't have to do anything, and it's working again