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From: Dawson Toth <dawson@harperdb.io>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:58:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(release): consolidate release config so all commit types
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- **Resolved config shadowing:** `.releaserc.json` (no `presetConfig`) was silently overriding `release.config.js` (cosmiconfig loads the first match), so the preset fell back to defaults and hid `chore`/`chore(deps)`/etc. — dependency-only releases came out empty. Moved the `presetConfig` into `.releaserc.json` and **deleted the dead `release.config.js`**.
- Aligned `presetConfig.types` to studio's superset.
- Added the Renovate guard.

(No lockfile change — the preset devDep is already on a 9.x range.)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .releaserc.json   | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 release.config.js | 33 ---------------------------------
 renovate.json     |  5 +++++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 release.config.js

diff --git a/.releaserc.json b/.releaserc.json
index 57ad559..87ca503 100644
--- a/.releaserc.json
+++ b/.releaserc.json
@@ -29,7 +29,28 @@
 				}
 			}
 		],
-		"@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
+		[
+			"@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
+			{
+				"preset": "conventionalcommits",
+				"presetConfig": {
+					"types": [
+						{ "type": "feat", "section": "Features" },
+						{ "type": "fix", "section": "Bug Fixes" },
+						{ "type": "perf", "section": "Performance Improvements" },
+						{ "type": "refactor", "section": "Refactoring" },
+						{ "type": "chore", "scope": "deps", "section": "Dependency Updates", "hidden": false },
+						{ "type": "chore", "section": "Chores", "hidden": false },
+						{ "type": "docs", "section": "Documentation" },
+						{ "type": "style", "section": "Styles" },
+						{ "type": "test", "section": "Tests" },
+						{ "type": "build", "section": "Build System" },
+						{ "type": "ci", "section": "Continuous Integration" },
+						{ "type": "revert", "section": "Reverts" }
+					]
+				}
+			}
+		],
 		[
 			"@semantic-release/npm",
 			{
diff --git a/release.config.js b/release.config.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 04f65fa..0000000
--- a/release.config.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-module.exports = {
-	plugins: [
-		'@semantic-release/commit-analyzer',
-		[
-			'@semantic-release/release-notes-generator',
-			{
-				preset: 'conventionalcommits',
-				presetConfig: {
-					types: [
-						{ type: 'feat', section: 'Features' },
-						{ type: 'feature', section: 'Features' },
-						{ type: 'docs', section: 'Documentation' },
-						{ type: 'fix', section: 'Bug Fixes' },
-						{ type: 'perf', section: 'Performance Improvements' },
-						{ type: 'refactor', section: 'Code Improvements' },
-						{ type: 'revert', section: 'Reverts' },
-						{ type: 'test', section: 'Test Improvements' },
-						{ type: 'chore', scope: 'deps', section: 'Dependency Updates' },
-					],
-				},
-			},
-		],
-		[
-			'@semantic-release/git',
-			{
-				'assets': ['package.json'],
-				'message': 'chore(release): ${nextRelease.version} [skip ci]\n\n${nextRelease.notes}',
-			},
-		],
-		'@semantic-release/github',
-		'@semantic-release/npm',
-	],
-};
diff --git a/renovate.json b/renovate.json
index 2dcc30a..568977a 100644
--- a/renovate.json
+++ b/renovate.json
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
 			],
 			"matchCurrentVersion": "!/^0/",
 			"automerge": true
+		},
+		{
+			"description": "Hold conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits on v9: @semantic-release/release-notes-generator@14 bundles the Handlebars conventional-changelog-writer@8, and preset v10's function-based templates render empty release notes under writer@8. Drop once release-notes-generator ships a writer@9 major.",
+			"matchPackageNames": ["conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits"],
+			"allowedVersions": "<10"
 		}
 	]
 }