Add a body argument?

[niess]

First of all thank you again for this GitHub Action. It is easy to use and works well.

This a feature request :)

Would it be possible to add a body argument to the automatic-release action? For example, if the body argument is defined then it's content would be used as body for the release instead of the changelog (e.g. here). While it is convenient to have a changelog generated automatically, for my use case it would make more sense to to have a custom message as the body of the release.

[marvinpinto]

This feature makes sense to me! It may or may not be possible at the moment without any changes (I haven't looked) but either way I'll leave this open in case you or anyone else is interested in taking this on :+1:

[dannoe]

It would be great, if we could decide if we want to replace the original body or just append/prepend the body with something.

[vintagepc]

I'll toss my hat in the ring for this feature as well. Changelog is great when paired with squash merges and proper commit messages, but have found myself wanting to add other generated items (e.g. status bages for other workflows on the same tag, like code lint and automated tests) occasionally, esp. to prerelease builds.

[techno-sam]

I would also love this feature, however, I would also like to be able to use the current changelog feature, but use github usernames instead of full names for the author segment of the changelog.

EDIT: It seems that it does use usernames, there is just a discrepancy between editing files on github, and pushing from local.

[proddy]

I would welcome this feature too. The ability to add a body text (or filename) would be great. I've seen this in similar actions like https://github.com/ncipollo/release-action and https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release. If I knew how and I would give it a shot of coding it myself and doing a PR

[wenytang-ms-123]

any update?

[evermind-zz]

Have a look at #403