[goosewobbler]

Description

The default version.preset (conventional) could never load. On a tagged repo the failed preset import rejected unobserved across an await, so release / standing-pr update crashed with exit 1 and no JSON envelope.

• version.preset is now an enum of the shipped presets, conventionalcommits (default) and angular. Anything else fails config load with a CONFIG_ERROR (exit 2) listing the supported names. The enum shows in the JSON schema and the generated config docs.
• Presets come from static imports and are created eagerly. They resolve from releasekit's own dependencies in any install layout, including the bundled release/dist the Action runs, and there's no lazy preset promise left to reject unobserved. The preset map is typed by the config enum, so adding a preset to one without the other fails typecheck.
• Dropped the conventional-changelog-conventional-commits alias dependency and the dead preset fallbacks.
• The e2e, package-isolation and examples-smoke harnesses no longer install or hoist presets at the consumer level, so CI now checks that loading doesn't depend on layout.
• Docs give one default and one supported list.

Breaking: "preset": "conventional" / "conventional-commits" now fail validation. Use "conventionalcommits" or omit the key. (conventional never loaded; conventional-commits only worked through a hoisted alias, and never from the bundled CLI.)

Related Issue(s)

Closes #652

Type of Change

• feat — New feature
• fix — Bug fix
• docs — Documentation change
• refactor — Code refactoring
• test — Adding or updating tests
• chore — Maintenance, dependencies, tooling
• Breaking change — Requires major version bump

Scope

• @releasekit/version
• @releasekit/notes
• @releasekit/publish
• @releasekit/release
• @releasekit/config
• @releasekit/core
• CI / workflows
• Root / monorepo

Checklist

• Lint passes (pnpm lint)
• Tests pass (pnpm test)
• Typecheck passes (pnpm typecheck)
• Documentation updated (if applicable)
• Breaking changes noted in description

Testing Notes

• New tests: an unknown or legacy preset throws a ConfigError (config); release and standing-pr update write a CONFIG_ERROR envelope to --output and exit 2 (release); test/e2e/preset.sh covers no preset on a tagged repo (exit 0, conventionalcommits rules: feat!: → 2.0.0) and "nonsense" tagged/untagged (exit 2, CONFIG_ERROR on stdout / --output, no crash output).
• Ran locally: scripts/test-packages.ts (strict pnpm, no hoisting), scripts/test-e2e.ts (all 19 shell tests, no consumer presets), the examples-smoke minimal fixture dry-run, and version's integration suite after rebasing onto test(version): run the integration suite in CI and fix its stale sync-tags fixture #685.
• Not addressed: a config error's stderr is still the multi-line validation message, printed twice by release, as for every config error today. releasekit-version's config-error exit code is left to feat(cli)!: envelope the version and publish commands, unwrap on the pipe #616.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; no actionable issues were established.

Summary

Changes version.preset to default to conventionalcommits and accept only the two shipped presets.

• Version calculations use a supported preset by default.

No actionable issues were established. goosewobbler explicitly identifies rejection of the legacy preset names as an intentional breaking change. goosewobbler leaves duplicate config-error stderr unchanged and defers the standalone version-command exit code to #616.

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[github-actions]

Standing release PR: #614 · v0.42.0 queued (4 packages) · open 82d 20h 11m · ✅ ready to merge

Release Preview — v0.41.2 → v0.42.0

Note: Labels on this PR are advisory in standing-pr mode. Bumps come from conventional commits in the standing PR; override by editing labels on the standing PR itself. Add release:immediate to bypass the standing PR and release this PR directly.

These changes will be added to the release PR (#614) when merged:

Changelog

monorepo 0.41.2 → 0.42.0

Added

• BREAKING envelope the version and publish commands, unwrap on the pipe (cli) (PR #616)

Changed

• drop the preset troubleshooting entry and the history in preset comments

Fixed

• BREAKING default to conventionalcommits and reject unsupported presets (version) (#652)

All packages → 0.42.0 (sync versioning)

• @releasekit/version
• @releasekit/notes
• @releasekit/publish
• @releasekit/release

After merge — predicted release

No version escalation — this PR's changes will be included in the queued release without affecting the projected versions.

Package	Standing PR	This PR	After merge
monorepo	0.42.0	0.42.0	0.42.0

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