Source release notes from the changelog

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The release workflow used --generate-notes, so a release page got GitHub's raw list of merged PR titles instead of Ceiling's notes. 1.5.38 shipped that way and was updated by hand.

The draft-release step now reads the version's section out of CHANGELOG.md and uses it as the release body, appends a Full Changelog compare link against the previous tag, and also updates the notes when a draft is re-run. It fails the release if the changelog has no section for the tagged version, so the notes cannot silently fall back to the PR list again.

The release PR already finalizes the changelog section (docs/RELEASING.md step 2), so the source is always present at tag time.

Validated the section regex against the current changelog and the workflow YAML parses. This runs in the tag-only release job, so there is no pre-merge CI path for it.

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Source Windows release notes from CHANGELOG.md in release workflow

• Adds PowerShell logic to read the version-specific section from CHANGELOG.md, append a previous-tag comparison link when available, and write the notes to a temp file
• Updates draft releases to use the generated notes and version title, and now checks asset-upload and release-edit exit codes so failures fail the workflow
• Risk: the release step fails when the matching CHANGELOG.md section is absent; existing draft releases get overwritten with the generated notes

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Release Management
  • Draft release notes are now generated from the matching version section in CHANGELOG.md.
  • Releases now include a link to the full changelog when a previous tag is available.
  • Release creation and draft updates use the prepared changelog content consistently.
  • Release processing now reports an error when the corresponding changelog section is missing.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release workflow now creates release notes from the matching CHANGELOG.md section. It validates that the section exists, adds a previous-tag compare link when available, and uses the notes file for both draft updates and release creation.

Changes

Release notes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Build and apply changelog notes .github/workflows/release.yml	The workflow extracts the ## [Ceiling] <version> section, fails when it is absent, adds a **Full Changelog** compare link when a previous tag exists, and passes the generated notes file to gh release edit and gh release create.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ReleaseWorkflow as release.yml
  participant Changelog as CHANGELOG.md
  participant Git as git
  participant GitHubCLI as gh CLI
  ReleaseWorkflow->>Changelog: Extract release version section
  ReleaseWorkflow->>Git: Find previous tag
  Git-->>ReleaseWorkflow: Return previous tag when available
  ReleaseWorkflow->>GitHubCLI: Apply notes file to draft edit or release create

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d3e05

A failed asset upload can produce an incomplete draft release while the workflow reports success. Check the upload result before updating the release.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: sourcing release notes from the changelog instead of generated notes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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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🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch chore/release-notes-from-changelog

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In @.github/workflows/release.yml:
- Line 288: In the existing-release branch, check the exit status of gh release
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