`TypeError: Method Date.prototype.toString called on incompatible receiver`

[hasezoey]

Describe the bug
This was a known issue in semantic-release it self (semantic-release/semantic-release#3571), but this github action, at least as of 0a51e81 (tag v4.2.0) still depends on conventional-changelog-writer@8.0.0 due to the package-lock.json:

semantic-release-action/package-lock.json

Lines 1118 to 1120 in 0a51e81

	"node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer": {
	"version": "8.0.0",
	"resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/conventional-changelog-writer/-/conventional-changelog-writer-8.0.0.tgz",

Error:

[10:03:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[10:03:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ✘  Failed step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
[10:03:39 AM] [semantic-release] › ✘  An error occurred while running semantic-release: TypeError: Method Date.prototype.toString called on incompatible receiver [object Date]
    at Proxy.toString (<anonymous>)
    at [Symbol.toPrimitive] (<anonymous>)
    at new Date (<anonymous>)
    at Object.formatDate (file:///home/runner/work/_actions/cycjimmy/semantic-release-action/0a51e81a6baff2acad3ee88f4121c589c73d0f0e/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/dist/utils.js:8:12)
    at defaultCommitTransform (file:///home/runner/work/_actions/cycjimmy/semantic-release-action/0a51e81a6baff2acad3ee88f4121c589c73d0f0e/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/dist/options.js:23:23)
    at transformCommit (file:///home/runner/work/_actions/cycjimmy/semantic-release-action/0a51e81a6baff2acad3ee88f4121c589c73d0f0e/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/dist/commit.js:29:23)
    at write (file:///home/runner/work/_actions/cycjimmy/semantic-release-action/0a51e81a6baff2acad3ee88f4121c589c73d0f0e/node_modules/conventional-changelog-writer/dist/writers.js:39:28)
    at async nextAsync (node:internal/streams/from:182:33) {
  pluginName: '@semantic-release/release-notes-generator'
}
Error: TypeError: Method Date.prototype.toString called on incompatible receiver [object Date]

Workflow

- name: Semantic Release
  uses: cycjimmy/semantic-release-action@0a51e81a6baff2acad3ee88f4121c589c73d0f0e # v4.2.0
  with:
    # dry_run: true
    # plugins included in semantic-release by default:
    # @semantic-release/commit-analyzer @semantic-release/release-notes-generator @semantic-release/npm @semantic-release/github
    extra_plugins: |
      @semantic-release/git@10.x
      @semantic-release/changelog@6.x
      @commitlint/config-conventional@19.x
  env:
    GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}

Before the Workaround

As a workaround, conventional-changelog-writer@8.0.1 can be explicitly installed:

extra_plugins: |
  @semantic-release/git@10.x
  @semantic-release/changelog@6.x
  @commitlint/config-conventional@19.x
  conventional-changelog-writer@8.0.1

Workaround Workflow file

Expected behavior
No Error to happen.

Additional context
This could be solved by either:

• not shipping a package-lock.json in the action
• updating conventional-changelog-writer in the lockfile to 8.0.1 (or explicitly depending on it)
• waiting for semantic-release to update the dependency requirement