From d7233fcec0f677d6e43a66038d423dbe274e1214 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Besson?= <sbesson@glencoesoftware.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:01:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] GitHub actions: add step to auto-create GitHub release on
 tags

Also set the workflow permissions
---
 .github/workflows/maven.yml | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/maven.yml b/.github/workflows/maven.yml
index 2015ac48..5a2b1e4c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/maven.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/maven.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
     strategy:
       matrix:
         java: [8, 11, 17, 21]
@@ -28,3 +30,15 @@ jobs:
           cache: 'maven'
       - name: Build
         run: mvn ${{ env.maven_commands }}
+  release:
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+    needs: build
+    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Create a GitHub release
+        run: gh release create --generate-notes "${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}