docs(releases): notes for 0.5.0 and draft 0.6.0

planning/releases/0.5.0.md

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+# semvertag 0.5.0 — `tag --dry-run`
+
+**Minor release shipping `semvertag tag --dry-run` and a new docs home.** `--dry-run` computes the bump and prints the planned tag without pushing — useful for previewing the next release locally and for CI smoke tests that need to exercise the composite action side-effect-free. The flag is purely additive; default behavior is unchanged.
+
+If you don't use the CLI directly and rely on the `modern-python/semvertag@v0` action, this release is wire-compatible — the action's `dry-run` input lands in a follow-up (0.6.0).
+
+## What landed
+
+- **`semvertag tag --dry-run`** — new CLI flag. When set, the use case computes the bump and emits `status="dry_run"` with `bump` / `tag` populated, but never calls `provider.create_tag`. The three other early-return statuses (`no_tags`, `already_tagged`, the strategy's `no_*_commit`) are untouched — they don't push anything, so dry-run has no effect on those paths. ([PR #15](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/15))
+- **`status` field gains the `dry_run` value.** `RunResult.status` is already plain `str`, so no type widening — just a new well-known string alongside the existing `created`, `no_tags`, `already_tagged`, `no_*_commit` enum.
+- **Human-readable output renders dry-run distinctly:** `Dry run: would create tag X on commit Y (strategy: ..., bump: ...)` mirrors the `created` format with the verb phrase swapped.
+- **Docs site moves to https://semvertag.modern-python.org.** mkdocs now auto-deploys to GitHub Pages on every push to `main` that touches `docs/`, `mkdocs.yml`, or the workflow itself. The previous `semvertag.readthedocs.io` URL is no longer maintained. ([PR #14](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/14))
+- **CI action pins bumped to current majors:** `actions/checkout@v6`, `extractions/setup-just@v4`, `astral-sh/setup-uv@v8.2.0`. Mechanical change, no behavior difference for consumers. ([PR #14](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/14))
+
+## Why dry-run
+
+Two motivations:
+
+1. **Preview the next bump locally.** Run `uvx 'semvertag>=0.5.0' tag --dry-run --json` against any repo to see what tag the next release would be, without committing to it.
+2. **Make CI smoke tests structurally safe.** This repo's `action-smoke` job (in `ci.yml`) has historically run the composite action against the real `main` with `permissions: contents: write`, and when main's HEAD was an untagged `feat/`/`bugfix/` merge, the smoke test pushed a real release tag from a PR's CI run. PR #14 surfaced this concretely (the smoke test minted `0.4.1` and `0.5.0` on different commits from PR runs). `--dry-run` is the CLI half of the fix; the composite action wiring lands in 0.6.0.
+
+## Usage
+
+```sh
+# Preview only — does not push:
+uvx 'semvertag>=0.5.0' tag --dry-run
+
+# JSON envelope for programmatic consumers:
+uvx 'semvertag>=0.5.0' tag --dry-run --json
+# {"schema_version":"1.0","strategy":"branch-prefix","bump":"minor",
+#  "status":"dry_run","tag":"0.6.0","commit":"abc1234...","reason":null}
+```
+
+When the latest commit already has a tag, `--dry-run` doesn't change anything — the run reports `status=already_tagged` exactly as a normal run would.
+
+## Breaking changes
+
+None. `--dry-run` is opt-in; the kwarg defaults to `False`; existing call sites and consumers see no change.
+
+## CLI version floor (action.yml)
+
+The `modern-python/semvertag@v0` action still pins `'semvertag>=0.3.1,<1'` after this release. The floor will bump to `>=0.5.0,<1` when the action exposes a `dry-run` input in 0.6.0.
+
+## See also
+
+- Spec: `planning/specs/2026-06-09-dry-run-flag-design.md`
+- Implementation plan: `planning/plans/2026-06-09-dry-run-flag.md`
+- Dry-run feature: [PR #15](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/15)
+- Docs site auto-deploy: [PR #14](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/14)
+- Composite action follow-up (the second half of the smell fix): 0.6.0 — see `planning/releases/0.6.0.md`

planning/releases/0.6.0.md

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+# semvertag 0.6.0 — `dry-run` on the composite action
+
+**Minor release exposing `--dry-run` through `modern-python/semvertag@v0` and removing the action-smoke side-effect smell.** Pure action + CI change — the CLI is unchanged from 0.5.0 (no Python source touched). Consumers who don't need the new input can keep using `@v0` exactly as before; the input is opt-in.
+
+If you don't use the composite action and only consume `semvertag` directly via `uvx`, you can skip this release — there's no CLI change.
+
+## What landed
+
+- **`dry-run` input on `action.yml`** (default `'false'`). When `true`, the composite passes `--dry-run` to `semvertag tag`; semvertag short-circuits before `provider.create_tag` and the existing case block normalizes `status="dry_run"` to the public `status="no-bump"`. The action's `bump` / `tag` outputs reflect what *would* have happened. ([PR #16](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/16))
+- **`action-smoke` (this repo's CI) becomes structurally side-effect-free.** Two layers of protection:
+  - Layer 1: `with: { dry-run: 'true' }` on `uses: ./` — semvertag never attempts a push.
+  - Layer 2: `permissions: contents: write` removed — even a future regression that bypassed dry-run would 403 on the API.
+- **Assertion reduced** from two lines (`status == no-bump` AND `bump == none`) to one (`status == no-bump`). Under dry-run, `bump` is unstable (reflects the would-be value) — the old check would fail on any PR where main HEAD was an untagged `feat/`/`bugfix/` merge. Status normalization is the real wiring contract; the single check catches a regression loudly (a unwired dry-run would surface as `created`).
+- **CLI version floor in `action.yml` bumps** from `>=0.3.1,<1` to `>=0.5.0,<1` (the release that ships `--dry-run`).
+- **`docs/providers/github.md` gets a `## Preview the next bump` section** with both the action-input example and the equivalent local `uvx` invocation.
+
+## Usage
+
+```yaml
+- id: semvertag
+  uses: modern-python/semvertag@v0
+  with:
+    dry-run: true
+- if: steps.semvertag.outputs.bump != 'none'
+  run: echo "Next release would be ${{ steps.semvertag.outputs.tag }} (${{ steps.semvertag.outputs.bump }} bump)"
+```
+
+Under `dry-run: true`, the action's `status` output is `no-bump` (no real tag was pushed). The `bump` and `tag` outputs reflect what *would* have happened, so a downstream conditional like the one above can branch on the planned bump.
+
+## Why
+
+PR #14 (in 0.5.0) surfaced the smell: `action-smoke` ran semvertag against the real `main` with `contents: write`, and when main HEAD wasn't already tagged, the smoke test pushed a real release tag from a PR's CI run. 0.5.0 shipped the CLI half (`--dry-run`); 0.6.0 wires it through the composite and switches the smoke job to use it. After this release:
+
+- `action-smoke` is provably side-effect-free regardless of main HEAD's tag state.
+- The brittle "main HEAD is always already-tagged" assumption is gone — the test asserts the dry-run wiring, not an external invariant.
+- Any consumer who wants to preview the next bump from a workflow can opt in via the same input.
+
+## Breaking changes
+
+None. `dry-run` defaults to `'false'`; existing `uses: modern-python/semvertag@v0` invocations behave identically to 0.5.x.
+
+The version floor bump (`>=0.3.1,<1` → `>=0.5.0,<1`) is internal to the action — consumers who pin `@v0` don't see it directly. If anyone was somehow consuming `action.yml` outside the `@v0` pin and pinning an old `semvertag` themselves, they'd need to upgrade to 0.5.0+. No known consumer pattern matches this.
+
+## Release procedure
+
+`tag-major.yml` automatically updates the floating `v0` tag on release-published, so the steps from 0.4.0's manual bootstrap are no longer needed.
+
+```sh
+gh release create 0.6.0 \
+  --title '0.6.0 — dry-run on the composite action' \
+  --notes-file planning/releases/0.6.0.md
+```
+
+`publish.yml` fires on release creation and pushes 0.6.0 to PyPI. `tag-major.yml` fires in parallel and force-updates `v0` to point at the 0.6.0 commit.
+
+## See also
+
+- Spec: `planning/specs/2026-06-09-action-yml-dry-run-design.md`
+- Implementation plan: `planning/plans/2026-06-09-action-yml-dry-run.md`
+- PR: [#16](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/16)
+- Predecessor (CLI half): [PR #15](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/15) — semvertag 0.5.0
+- Original smell surfacing: [PR #14](https://github.com/modern-python/semvertag/pull/14) — mkdocs deploy + the action-smoke side-effect discovery