Release It
CLI tool to automate versioning, changelog generation, and package publishing.
Dev workflow and config npm MIT
How Release It is used
Release It is a dependency in 12 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 33 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Changesets (116 projects). Projects that use it most often also use release-it conventional changelog (60.6%), TypeScript (90.9%), Husky (39.4%).
Release It popularity over time
Gid Score 49: downloads 58, use in agent projects 35, GitHub stars 48, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Release It
| release-it conventional changelog | 60.6% of Release It projects · 313.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| TypeScript | 90.9% of Release It projects · 1.7× more than average |
| Husky | 39.4% of Release It projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Prettier | 54.5% of Release It projects · 2.6× more than average |
| Jest | 30.3% of Release It projects · 4.8× more than average |
| lint-staged | 30.3% of Release It projects · 3.9× more than average |
| ESLint | 63.6% of Release It projects · 1.7× more than average |
| Turborepo | 24.2% of Release It projects · 4.2× more than average |
From all 33 projects in our scan that use Release It, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Release It as a dependency.
How Release It is funded
Open Collective: Lars Kappert
| Received, last 12 months | $200 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | €0 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $1,050 |
| Raised since the start | $1,050 |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $0 over 24 months |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 0 |
Apr 2024Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Apr 2024. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @webpro | 14 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes Knip.
Ways to fund Release It
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install release-it |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (31), Next.js (1), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | portel-dev/ncp, incubrain/foundry, run-llama/n8n-llamacloud, dx-zero/mcpn, TeamCoderz/WordyMe |
Alternatives to Release It
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Release It are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Changesets npm Manage versioning and changelogs in monorepos with declarative version updates. |
65 | 116 (2.4%) | 3.3M | 12.5K | MIT |
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