- add new ability to define exclude_labels for categories (give greater flexibility)

- FIX https://github.com/mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action/issues/681

dist/index.js

@@ -1270,6 +1270,18 @@ function buildChangelog(prs, options) {
         }
         let matched = false;
         for (const [category, pullRequests] of categorized) {
+            // check if any exclude label matches
+            if (category.exclude_labels !== undefined) {
+                if (haveCommonElements(category.exclude_labels.map(lbl => lbl.toLocaleLowerCase('en')), pr.labels)) {
+                    if (core.isDebug()) {
+                        const prNum = pr.number;
+                        const prLabels = pr.labels;
+                        const excludeLabels = JSON.stringify(category.exclude_labels);
+                        core.debug(`PR ${prNum} with labels: ${prLabels} excluded from category via exclude label: ${excludeLabels}`);
+                    }
+                    continue; // one of the exclude labels matched, skip the PR for this category
+                }
+            }
             if (category.exhaustive === true) {
                 if (haveEveryElements(category.labels.map(lbl => lbl.toLocaleLowerCase('en')), pr.labels)) {
                     pullRequests.push(body);

src/configuration.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ export interface Configuration {
 export interface Category {
   title: string // the title of this category
   labels: string[] // labels to associate PRs to this category
+  exclude_labels?: string[] // if an exclude label is detected, the PR will be excluded from this category
   exhaustive?: boolean // requires all labels to be present in the PR
 }
 

src/transform.ts

@@ -111,6 +111,26 @@ export function buildChangelog(
 
     let matched = false
     for (const [category, pullRequests] of categorized) {
+      // check if any exclude label matches
+      if (category.exclude_labels !== undefined) {
+        if (
+          haveCommonElements(
+            category.exclude_labels.map(lbl => lbl.toLocaleLowerCase('en')),
+            pr.labels
+          )
+        ) {
+          if (core.isDebug()) {
+            const prNum = pr.number
+            const prLabels = pr.labels
+            const excludeLabels = JSON.stringify(category.exclude_labels)
+            core.debug(
+              `PR ${prNum} with labels: ${prLabels} excluded from category via exclude label: ${excludeLabels}`
+            )
+          }
+          continue // one of the exclude labels matched, skip the PR for this category
+        }
+      }
+
       if (category.exhaustive === true) {
         if (
           haveEveryElements(