Projects/ herald/v1.0.4 (Feb 9, 2026)

Improved reliability of GitHub API interactions and cleaner LLM output by adding rate-limit retries and stripping conversational preamble from generated release notes.

Features

• Strip conversational preamble (e.g. "Here are the release notes:") from Claude-generated output, including optional thematic breaks following preamble lines

Bug Fixes

• Retry GitHub API calls up to 3 times with exponential backoff on HTTP 429 rate limiting
• Surface stderr output in error messages for both gh and claude CLI calls, replacing previously discarded diagnostic information

Internal

• Refactor all gh CLI calls through a centralized runGH helper with stdout/stderr capture and retry logic
• Remove redundant GetRelease function — FindPreviousRelease already validates tag existence
• Update prompt template to explicitly instruct the LLM not to include preamble text

Full Changelog: https://github.com/AndreyAkinshin/herald/compare/v1.0.3...v1.0.4

Release notes generated by herald v1.0.4