gatsby plugin doesn't seem forward the release from the options to webpack

[valyagolev]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have checked for existing issues https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/issues
• I have reviewed the documentation https://docs.sentry.io/
• I am using the latest SDK release https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/releases

How do you use Sentry?

Sentry Saas (sentry.io)

Which package are you using?

@sentry/gatsby

SDK Version

"@sentry/gatsby": "^7.6.0",

Framework Version

"gatsby": "2.27.5",

Link to Sentry event

No response

Steps to Reproduce

1. configure @sentry/gatsby in gatsby-config.js, set the release

2. build gatsby in a very bare container where you have no git information

3. see the build fail with

        Sentry CLI Plugin: Unable to determine version. Make sure to include `release` option or use the environment that supports auto-detection
   

https://docs.sentry.io/cli/releases/#creating-releases

4. try setting all kinds of env variables, such as SENTRY_RELEASE
5. see the build fail anyway
6. look into the plugin code and realise that the release option never gets sent to webpack https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/blob/master/packages/gatsby/gatsby-node.js#L35

Expected Result

my app builds

Actual Result

my app doesn't build

[lobsterkatie]

Hi, @valyagolev. Thanks for reporting this! I took a look, and you're right. (I'm honestly not sure how this ever worked for people not using their git SHA as a release name.) Rather than make a change here, I've made a PR to the webpack plugin repo to honor the process.env.SENTRY_RELEASE value. Once that's merged and released, we'll update the dependency in @sentry/gatsby.

[valyagolev]

thank you! glad to hear it’s not me losing my mind

docs mention the release as configurable here in the end: https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/guides/gatsby/ . i still think such an option would be nice to have. otherwise please state in the docs that one needs to set an env var

[valyagolev]

see also https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/@sentry/gatsby/ - i think i tried those options and they didn’t work