update the script and goreleaser version

Signed-off-by: Shiv Verma <shverma@redhat.com>

Author: pratap0007

tekton/release-pipeline.yml

@@ -104,8 +104,7 @@ spec:
         - name: github-token-secret-key
           value: $(params.github-token-secret-key)
         - name: image
-          # TODO: update the goreleaser image to latest once go v1.25.6 is supported in latest goreleaser image
-          value: goreleaser/goreleaser:v2.18.0-ae4debbe-nightly
+          value: goreleaser/goreleaser:v2.17.1
         - name: flags
           value: --timeout=60m
       workspaces:

tekton/release.sh

@@ -41,15 +41,21 @@ kubectl get pipeline 2>/dev/null >/dev/null || {
 RELEASE_BRANCH="release-${RELEASE_VERSION%.*}.x"
 
 git fetch -a --tags ${UPSTREAM_REMOTE} >/dev/null
-lasttag=$(git tag --sort=-v:refname | grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$' | grep -v "^${RELEASE_VERSION}$" | head -1)
-[[ -z ${lasttag} ]] && { echo "no previous release tag found for ${RELEASE_VERSION}"; exit 1; }
 
 git ls-remote --exit-code ${UPSTREAM_REMOTE} refs/heads/${RELEASE_BRANCH} >/dev/null 2>&1 && {
-    echo "Patch release detected: ${RELEASE_BRANCH} exists on ${UPSTREAM_REMOTE}, previous tag ${lasttag}"
     patch_release=true
-} || {
-    echo "New release detected: creating ${RELEASE_BRANCH} from ${DEFAULT_BRANCH}, previous tag ${lasttag}"
-}
+} || true
+
+if [[ -n ${patch_release} ]];then
+    version_prefix="${RELEASE_VERSION%.*}"
+    prev_tag=$(git tag --sort=-v:refname -l "${version_prefix}.*" | grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$' | grep -v "^${RELEASE_VERSION}$" | head -1)
+    [[ -z ${prev_tag} ]] && { echo "no previous patch release tag found for ${version_prefix}"; exit 1; }
+    echo "Patch release detected: ${RELEASE_BRANCH} exists on ${UPSTREAM_REMOTE}, previous tag ${prev_tag}"
+else
+    prev_tag=$(git tag --sort=-v:refname | grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$' | grep -v "^${RELEASE_VERSION}$" | head -1)
+    [[ -z ${prev_tag} ]] && { echo "no previous release tag found for ${RELEASE_VERSION}"; exit 1; }
+    echo "New minor release detected: creating ${RELEASE_BRANCH} from ${DEFAULT_BRANCH}, previous tag ${prev_tag}"
+fi
 
 cd ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/tektoncd/cli
 
@@ -77,16 +83,9 @@ fi
     git cherry-pick 052b0b4ce989fe9aee01027e67e61538b48e1179 >/dev/null
 }
 
-if [[ -n ${patch_release} ]];then
-    version_prefix="${RELEASE_VERSION%.*}"
-    prev_tag=$(git tag --sort=-v:refname -l "${version_prefix}.*" | grep -E '^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$' | grep -v "^${RELEASE_VERSION}$" | head -1)
-    [[ -z ${prev_tag} ]] && { echo "no previous patch release tag found for ${version_prefix}"; exit 1; }
-else
-    prev_tag=${lasttag}
-fi
-COMMITS=$(git log --reverse --no-merges \
-              --pretty=format:'%H' HEAD \
-              --since "$(git log --pretty=format:%cd -1 ${prev_tag})")
+COMMITS=$(git log --reverse --no-merges --pretty=format:'%H' ${prev_tag}..HEAD)
+
+echo "Creating changelog for ${RELEASE_VERSION} from ${prev_tag}..HEAD"
 
 changelog=""
 for c in ${COMMITS};do