WPackagist Changelog Action

Automatically comment WordPress plugin changelogs on pull requests when WPackagist dependencies change in your composer.lock or composer.json files.

Features

• Detects changes to WPackagist plugins in both composer.lock and composer.json
• Fetches changelogs from WordPress.org API
• Warns about unstable versions when installed version > WP.org's stable tag for the plugin

Usage

Basic Setup

Create a workflow file in your repository (e.g., .github/workflows/wpackagist-changelog.yml):

name: WPackagist Changelog

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - 'composer.lock'
      - 'composer.json'

jobs:
  changelog:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - name: Comment changelogs on PR
        uses: roots/wpackagist-changelog-action@v1

Example Comment

The action creates a formatted comment like this:

🔌 WordPress Plugin Changelogs

woocommerce (v10.2.0)

⚠️ Warning: Installing version 10.2.0 but stable tag is 10.1.2. This may be an unstable version. Learn more

View changelog

10.2.2 2025-09-29

WooCommerce

• Fix - Check if template part is from file system before building the result from file #61171
• Fix - Fix low-resolution images displayed in the Classic Template block gallery #61182
• Fix - Make legacy gallery filters available while rendering blocks #61173

View full changelog on WordPress.org