@williamthorsen/release-kit 14.2.0 → 14.2.2

package/.meta/changelog.json

@@ -1,4 +1,42 @@
 [
+  {
+    "version": "14.2.2",
+    "date": "2026-10-17",
+    "sections": [
+      {
+        "title": "📦 Dependencies",
+        "audience": "dev",
+        "items": [
+          {
+            "description": "Upgrades `@williamthorsen/eslint-config-typescript` from 18.0.0 to 19.0.0 and rewrites the code in `build-info`, `nmr-core`, `nmr`, and `release-kit` that its new and widened rules report, without changing behavior. (#1047)",
+            "hash": "610ee159fdc429681b1078b500a064c5df296724",
+            "entry": 1
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Upgrades `readyup` from 0.40.0 to 0.41.0 and recompiles the kits in `nmr`, `release-kit`, and `v11y-check`, whose manifests now record each checklist's check names under `checklistChecks`. (#1047)",
+            "hash": "610ee159fdc429681b1078b500a064c5df296724",
+            "entry": 2
+          },
+          {
+            "description": "Upgrades `pnpm` to 12.11.2, `@types/node` to 24.19.2, `lefthook` to 2.2.1, `@williamthorsen/strict-lint` to 14.2.0, `@williamthorsen/tsconfig` to 0.11.0, `smol-toml` to 1.9.1, and `vite` to 8.3.4. (#1047)",
+            "hash": "610ee159fdc429681b1078b500a064c5df296724",
+            "entry": 3
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "14.2.1",
+    "date": "2026-10-13",
+    "sections": [
+      {
+        "title": "📦 Dependencies",
+        "audience": "dev",
+        "items": [{ "description": "Bumped `@williamthorsen/change-grammar` to 0.2.1" }]
+      }
+    ]
+  },
   {
     "version": "14.2.0",
     "date": "2026-10-12",

package/.readyup/kits/default.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /** @noformat -- @generated. Do not edit. Compiled by rdy. */
 /* eslint-disable */
-export const __readyupVersion = "0.40.0";
+export const __readyupVersion = "0.41.0";
 
 
 // .readyup/kits/default.ts
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ function translateGlob(pattern) {
 
 // .readyup/kits/default.ts
 function getMinVersion() {
-  const picked = { "version": "14.2.0" };
+  const picked = { "version": "14.2.2" };
   if (typeof picked["version"] !== "string") {
     throw new TypeError("release-kit/package.json: 'version' must be a string");
   }
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ var default_default = defineRdyKit({
         {
           name: "publish.yaml workflow exists",
           severity: "warn",
-          skip: () => !hasPublishablePackages() ? "no publishable packages" : false,
+          skip: () => !hasPublishablePackages() && "no publishable packages",
           check: () => fileExists(".github/workflows/publish.yaml"),
           fix: "Add .github/workflows/publish.yaml using the publish workflow template",
           checks: [
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ var default_default = defineRdyKit({
         {
           name: "create-github-release.yaml matches template",
           severity: "warn",
-          skip: () => !fileExists(".github/workflows/create-github-release.yaml") ? "no create-github-release workflow (GitHub Releases not adopted)" : false,
+          skip: () => !fileExists(".github/workflows/create-github-release.yaml") && "no create-github-release workflow (GitHub Releases not adopted)",
           check: () => {
             const hash = detectRepoType() === "monorepo" ? CREATE_GITHUB_RELEASE_WORKFLOW_HASH_MONOREPO : CREATE_GITHUB_RELEASE_WORKFLOW_HASH_SINGLE;
             return fileMatchesHash(".github/workflows/create-github-release.yaml", hash);
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ var default_default = defineRdyKit({
         {
           name: ".config/release-kit.config.ts exports a config",
           severity: "error",
-          skip: () => !fileExists(".config/release-kit.config.ts") ? "no release-kit config file" : false,
+          skip: () => !fileExists(".config/release-kit.config.ts") && "no release-kit config file",
           check: () => configFileExportsConfig(),
           fix: "Export the config from .config/release-kit.config.ts as a default export or as a named `config` export; release-kit does not resolve any other export",
           checks: [
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ var default_default = defineRdyKit({
             {
               name: ".github/labels.yaml exists",
               severity: "warn",
-              skip: () => !fileContains(".config/release-kit.config.ts", /repoLabels/) ? "no repoLabels config" : false,
+              skip: () => !fileContains(".config/release-kit.config.ts", /repoLabels/) && "no repoLabels config",
               check: () => fileExists(".github/labels.yaml"),
               fix: "Run `release-kit sync-labels generate` to produce the labels file",
               checks: [
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ var default_default = defineRdyKit({
         {
           name: "published packages ship CHANGELOG.md",
           severity: "warn",
-          skip: () => !hasPublishablePackages() ? "no publishable packages" : false,
+          skip: () => !hasPublishablePackages() && "no publishable packages",
           check: () => packagesShipChangelog(),
           fix: 'Add "CHANGELOG.md" to the files field of each affected package.json'
         },
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ var default_default = defineRdyKit({
           severity: "warn",
           skip: () => {
             if (!hasPublishablePackages()) return "no publishable packages";
-            return changelogArchivesAreEnabled() ? false : "changelogMarkdown.keepVersions is not set";
+            return !changelogArchivesAreEnabled() && "changelogMarkdown.keepVersions is not set";
           },
           check: () => packagesShipChangelogArchives(),
           fix: 'Add "changelogs/" to the files field of each affected package.json, so that the links from CHANGELOG.md to its archive files resolve in the published package'
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ var default_default = defineRdyKit({
         {
           name: "changelog.json generation is enabled",
           severity: "recommend",
-          skip: () => !hasPublishablePackages() ? "no publishable packages" : false,
+          skip: () => !hasPublishablePackages() && "no publishable packages",
           check: () => changelogJsonIsEnabled(),
           fix: "Remove changelogJson.enabled: false from .config/release-kit.config.ts so that release-kit writes the machine-readable changelog that upgrade tooling reads before CHANGELOG.md",
           checks: [
@@ -450,8 +450,8 @@ function scopeLabelsHaveNoDescriptions() {
       continue;
     }
     const descriptionMatch = /^\s+description:\s*(.*?)\s*$/.exec(line);
-    if (descriptionMatch && currentName?.startsWith("scope:")) {
-      if (stripYamlQuotes(descriptionMatch[1] ?? "") !== "") described.push(currentName);
+    if (descriptionMatch && currentName?.startsWith("scope:") && stripYamlQuotes(descriptionMatch[1] ?? "") !== "") {
+      described.push(currentName);
     }
   }
   if (described.length === 0) return true;

package/.readyup/kits/npm-auto-publish.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /** @noformat -- @generated. Do not edit. Compiled by rdy. */
 /* eslint-disable */
-export const __readyupVersion = "0.40.0";
+export const __readyupVersion = "0.41.0";
 
 
 // .readyup/kits/npm-auto-publish.ts
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ function buildWorkspaceCheck(workspace) {
       // as unpublished would advise publishing a package that is already there.
       skip: () => {
         const auth = getCachedNpmAuthStatus();
-        return auth.status === "unreachable" ? auth.detail : false;
+        return auth.status === "unreachable" && auth.detail;
       },
       check: () => describeNpmPackageLookup(lookUpNpmPackage(displayName, readPublishRegistry(workspace))),
       fix: `Run "npm publish --access public" from ${workspace.dir} to bootstrap the package on npm`,
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ function buildWorkspaceCheck(workspace) {
           name: "trusted publisher configured",
           skip: () => {
             const capability = getCachedTrustCapability();
-            return capability.ok ? false : capability.detail;
+            return !capability.ok && capability.detail;
           },
           check: () => describeTrustedPublisher(getTrustQueryResult(displayName), displayName, getCachedOwnerRepo()),
           fix: formatTrustCommand(displayName, "<owner>/<repo>")
@@ -470,10 +470,10 @@ function selectProbeName() {
 }
 function skipIfNothingPublishable() {
   const publishable = discoverWorkspaces({ filter: (workspace) => workspace.isPackage });
-  return publishable.length > 0 ? false : "no publishable packages";
+  return publishable.length === 0 && "no publishable packages";
 }
 function skipIfNotPublishable(workspace) {
-  return workspace.isPackage ? false : "package.json#private is true";
+  return !workspace.isPackage && "package.json#private is true";
 }
 export {
   buildWorkspaceCheck,

package/.readyup/manifest.json

@@ -2,18 +2,53 @@
   "version": 1,
   "kits": [
     {
+      "checklistChecks": [
+        {
+          "checklist": "release-kit",
+          "checks": [
+            "@williamthorsen/release-kit in devDependencies",
+            "@williamthorsen/release-kit >= 14.2.2",
+            "release.yaml workflow exists",
+            "release.yaml matches template",
+            "release.yaml does not reference deprecated tag ref",
+            "publish.yaml workflow exists",
+            "publish.yaml matches template",
+            "publish.yaml does not reference deprecated tag ref",
+            "create-github-release.yaml matches template",
+            ".config/release-kit.config.ts exports a config",
+            "releaseNotes config is consistent with changelogJson",
+            ".config/release-kit.config.ts uses defineConfig",
+            "releaseNotes.shouldInjectIntoReadme is true",
+            "README contains release-notes section markers",
+            "repoLabels block declared in .config/release-kit.config.ts",
+            ".github/labels.yaml exists",
+            "labels.yaml has current common preset",
+            "scope labels in .github/labels.yaml have no description",
+            "published packages ship CHANGELOG.md",
+            "published packages ship the changelog archives",
+            "changelog.json generation is enabled",
+            "published packages ship the changelog JSON",
+            "config does not use removed releaseNotes.shouldCreateGithubRelease",
+            "@changesets/cli not in devDependencies",
+            "sync-labels.yaml workflow exists",
+            "sync-labels.yaml matches template",
+            "sync-labels.yaml does not reference deprecated tag ref",
+            "retired .config/sync-labels.config.ts is absent"
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
       "checklists": [
         "release-kit"
       ],
       "esbuildVersion": "0.28.2",
       "inputs": [
         {
-          "hash": "a9f00459",
+          "hash": "176a18ce",
           "kind": "module",
           "path": "kits/default.ts"
         },
         {
-          "hash": "14ecf16a",
+          "hash": "92bf79b3",
           "kind": "inline",
           "path": "../package.json",
           "paths": [
@@ -48,12 +83,37 @@
       ],
       "name": "default",
       "path": "kits/default.js",
-      "readyupVersion": "0.40.0",
+      "readyupVersion": "0.41.0",
       "source": "kits/default.ts",
-      "sourceHash": "a9f00459",
-      "targetHash": "dada6894"
+      "sourceHash": "176a18ce",
+      "targetHash": "f10b7179"
     },
     {
+      "checklistChecks": [
+        {
+          "checklist": "repo",
+          "checks": [
+            "publish.yaml exists",
+            "id-token: write permission declared",
+            "No legacy token references in workflow files",
+            "Provenance setting matches repo visibility"
+          ]
+        },
+        {
+          "checklist": "packages",
+          "checks": [
+            "packageManager field starts with \"pnpm\"",
+            "At least one workspace discovered",
+            "npm session can answer trust queries",
+            "@williamthorsen/release-kit",
+            "repository field exists",
+            "publishConfig.access is \"public\"",
+            "published to npm",
+            "trusted publisher configured",
+            "files field exists"
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
       "checklists": [
         "repo",
         "packages"
@@ -61,7 +121,7 @@
       "esbuildVersion": "0.28.2",
       "inputs": [
         {
-          "hash": "79c773cf",
+          "hash": "66081555",
           "kind": "module",
           "path": "kits/npm-auto-publish.ts"
         },
@@ -83,10 +143,10 @@
       ],
       "name": "npm-auto-publish",
       "path": "kits/npm-auto-publish.js",
-      "readyupVersion": "0.40.0",
+      "readyupVersion": "0.41.0",
       "source": "kits/npm-auto-publish.ts",
-      "sourceHash": "79c773cf",
-      "targetHash": "38ddb04a"
+      "sourceHash": "66081555",
+      "targetHash": "081994f8"
     }
   ]
 }

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,20 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## 14.2.2 — 2026-10-17
+
+### 📦 Dependencies
+
+- Upgrades `@williamthorsen/eslint-config-typescript` from 18.0.0 to 19.0.0 and rewrites the code in `build-info`, `nmr-core`, `nmr`, and `release-kit` that its new and widened rules report, without changing behavior. (#1047)
+- Upgrades `readyup` from 0.40.0 to 0.41.0 and recompiles the kits in `nmr`, `release-kit`, and `v11y-check`, whose manifests now record each checklist's check names under `checklistChecks`. (#1047)
+- Upgrades `pnpm` to 12.11.2, `@types/node` to 24.19.2, `lefthook` to 2.2.1, `@williamthorsen/strict-lint` to 14.2.0, `@williamthorsen/tsconfig` to 0.11.0, `smol-toml` to 1.9.1, and `vite` to 8.3.4. (#1047)
+
+## 14.2.1 — 2026-10-13
+
+### 📦 Dependencies
+
+- Bumped `@williamthorsen/change-grammar` to 0.2.1
+
 ## 14.2.0 — 2026-10-12
 
 ### 🎉 Features

package/README.md

@@ -6,31 +6,7 @@ Version-bumping and changelog-generation toolkit for release workflows.
 
 Provides a self-contained CLI that auto-discovers workspaces from `pnpm-workspace.yaml`, parses conventional commits, determines version bumps, updates `package.json` files, and generates changelogs from the same commit history that decides each bump (with optional [editorial overrides](docs/editorial-overrides.md)).
 
-<!-- section:release-notes -->
-## Release notes — v14.2.0 (2026-10-12)
-
-### 🎉 Features
-
-- Adds an optional `aliases` array to a `repoLabels.labels` entry, which `sync-labels` writes to `.github/labels.yaml` so that the sync renames each existing label named by an alias to the entry's name and keeps it on the issues and pull requests that have it. (#1015)
-- Makes `release-kit sync-labels` reject a config whose alias names a label that the config resolves or appears twice, because the sync would otherwise merge one declared label into another and delete it. (#1015)
-- Adds the `confidence:high` ("Clearly worth doing"), `confidence:medium` ("Worth doing, but arguable"), and `confidence:low` ("Not worth a ticket now") labels to the `common` preset of `release-kit sync-labels`, and documents in `docs/labels.md` that the family grades how advisable a recommendation is. (#1019)
-- Adds a warning to the `release-kit` readyup kit that names each `scope:` label in `.github/labels.yaml` with a non-empty description, archived labels included, because GitHub's label list groups scope labels compactly only when they have no description. (#1022)
-- Adds the `releases` block to `.config/release-kit.config.ts`, in which an entry renames a discovered workspace's release target, excludes the workspace with `false`, or declares a composite of named members that the root `package.json` versions, as an alternative to the `workspaces` and `project` blocks, which keep working unchanged. (#1028)
-- Lets `release-kit prepare --only` select a `releases` composite by its target name, and makes a narrowed run that leaves the composite out skip it with a warning that names it. (#1028)
-- Adds directory release targets to `release-kit`: A `releases` entry whose `path` is not a workspace now declares a target that `prepare` versions from the directory's `package.json` or `version.json`, whose `CHANGELOG.md` `prepare` writes, and whose tags `push` and `create-github-release` handle, while `publish` skips them because a directory does not have any package to publish to npm. (#1029)
-- Adds the repo-root target `{ path: '.' }`, which versions the root `package.json`, tags `v{version}`, and writes every commit in the repo to `./CHANGELOG.md`, replacing a `project` block whose window covered the whole repo only while every workspace was excluded. (#1029)
-- Adds the `changelogMarkdown.keepVersions` config option, which makes `prepare` write only the newest `keepVersions` sections to `CHANGELOG.md`, with links to `changelogs/CHANGELOG-v{major}.md` archive files that contain the older sections, and delete any archive file that is no longer needed after the option is raised or removed. (#1031)
-- Extends `prepare` to read hand-written sections from the `changelogs/` archive files as well as from `CHANGELOG.md`, so that an archived section written by hand is kept when the changelog is regenerated. (#1031)
-- Adds the warning "published packages ship the changelog archives" to the release-kit readyup kit, which reports each publishable package whose `files` field omits `changelogs/` while `keepVersions` is set, because the links in `CHANGELOG.md` to the archive files would otherwise be broken in the published package. (#1031)
-
-### 🐛 Bug fixes
-
-- Fixes the issue that the `npm-auto-publish` kit crashed without reporting any results in a repo whose `origin` remote is missing or does not point to GitHub, and makes its trusted-publisher and provenance checks name that cause and advise adding the remote. (#1018)
-- Fixes the issue that `release-kit prepare` accepted two workspaces whose directories share a name, which `--only` and the dependency graph use to identify a workspace, and makes `prepare` and `release-kit overrides validate` stop with an error that lists the path of each. (#1026)
-- Fixes the issue that `release-kit push` never pushed the project tag on HEAD, and failed with `HEAD does not have any release tags.` when the project tag was the only release tag. (#1027)
-- Fixes the issue that `release-kit create-github-release` did not create a GitHub Release for the project tag; a private workspace's tag is still skipped. (#1027)
-- Makes `release-kit publish` skip a project tag named by `--tags` with the warning `Skipping v0.13.0: a project tag is not an npm package.`, since the project does not have an npm package to publish. (#1027)
-<!-- /section:release-notes -->
+<!-- section:release-notes --><!-- /section:release-notes -->
 
 ## Installation
 

package/dist/esm/createGithubReleaseCommand.js

@@ -38,10 +38,11 @@ export async function createGithubReleaseCommand(argv, styles, invocationDir) {
         reportError(`Failed to create GitHub Releases: ${describeError(error)}`);
         process.exit(1);
     }
-    if (outcome.skipped.length > 0) {
-        const formatted = outcome.skipped.map((s) => `${s.tag} (${s.reason})`).join(', ');
-        console.info(`Skipped ${outcome.skipped.length} tag(s) without releasable content: ${formatted}.`);
+    if (outcome.skipped.length === 0) {
+        return;
     }
+    const formatted = outcome.skipped.map((s) => `${s.tag} (${s.reason})`).join(', ');
+    console.info(`Skipped ${outcome.skipped.length} tag(s) without releasable content: ${formatted}.`);
 }
 function isReleasable(resolvedTag) {
     return resolvedTag.kind !== 'package' || resolvedTag.isPublishable;

package/dist/esm/defaults.js

@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@ function deriveDefaultWorkTypes() {
 function deriveDevOnlySections() {
     const sections = [];
     for (const entry of CANONICAL_TAXONOMY.types) {
-        if (!DEV_ONLY_TIERS.has(entry.tier)) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        if (entry.excludedFromChangelog === true) {
+        if (!DEV_ONLY_TIERS.has(entry.tier) || entry.excludedFromChangelog === true) {
             continue;
         }
         sections.push(composeHeader(entry));

package/dist/esm/determineBumpType.js

@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ export function determineBumpType(changes, workTypes, versionPatterns) {
             bump = 'patch';
         }
         const priority = RELEASE_PRIORITY[bump];
-        if (priority > highestPriority) {
-            highestPriority = priority;
-            result = bump;
+        if (priority <= highestPriority) {
+            continue;
         }
+        highestPriority = priority;
+        result = bump;
     }
     return result;
 }

package/dist/esm/enumerateReleaseWindows.js

@@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ function readTagBoundaries(tagPrefixes, positionByHash) {
     const boundaries = [];
     for (const line of output.split('\n')) {
         const [tag, creatorDate, objectName, dereferencedName] = line.split(FIELD_SEPARATOR);
-        if (tag === undefined || creatorDate === undefined || objectName === undefined) {
-            continue;
-        }
-        if (!matchesTagPrefix(tag, tagPrefixes)) {
+        if (tag === undefined ||
+            creatorDate === undefined ||
+            objectName === undefined ||
+            !matchesTagPrefix(tag, tagPrefixes)) {
             continue;
         }
         const hash = dereferencedName || objectName;

package/dist/esm/init/initCommand.js

@@ -6,13 +6,9 @@ import { formatPrivateWorkflowSkip, hasPublishablePackage } from "./hasPublishab
 import { PUBLISHING_WORKFLOW_PATHS, scaffoldFiles } from "./scaffold.js";
 export function checkEligibility(styles) {
     printStep('Checking eligibility');
-    if (!runRequiredCheck('Git repository detected', isGitRepo(), styles))
-        return false;
-    if (!runRequiredCheck('package.json found', hasPackageJson(), styles))
-        return false;
-    if (!runRequiredCheck('pnpm detected', usesPnpm(), styles))
-        return false;
-    return true;
+    return (runRequiredCheck('Git repository detected', isGitRepo(), styles) &&
+        runRequiredCheck('package.json found', hasPackageJson(), styles) &&
+        runRequiredCheck('pnpm detected', usesPnpm(), styles));
 }
 export function initCommand({ dryRun, force, styles, withConfig }) {
     if (dryRun) {

package/dist/esm/loadConfig.js

@@ -254,9 +254,7 @@ function assertNoTagPrefixCollisions(workspaces, directories, retiredPackages, p
         for (let j = i + 1; j < sources.length; j++) {
             const a = sources[i];
             const b = sources[j];
-            if (a === undefined || b === undefined)
-                continue;
-            if (a.owner === b.owner)
+            if (a === undefined || b === undefined || a.owner === b.owner)
                 continue;
             if (isPrefixCollision(a.prefix, b.prefix)) {
                 throw new Error(`Tag prefix collision: '${a.prefix}' (${a.label}) and '${b.prefix}' (${b.label}). ` +

package/dist/esm/prepareCommand.js

@@ -212,11 +212,12 @@ function runAndReport(computePlan, dryRun, style) {
     const formatError = runFormatCommand(plan.formatCommand);
     process.stdout.write(reportPrepare(plan, { applied: true, style, ...(formatError !== undefined && { formatError }) }) + '\n');
     reportPlanFiles(plan, false);
-    if (formatError !== undefined) {
-        reportError(`The format command failed, but the release is prepared and ${RELEASE_TAGS_FILE} is written. ` +
-            `Format the release files and run 'release-kit commit'.`);
-        process.exit(1);
+    if (formatError === undefined) {
+        return;
     }
+    reportError(`The format command failed, but the release is prepared and ${RELEASE_TAGS_FILE} is written. ` +
+        `Format the release files and run 'release-kit commit'.`);
+    process.exit(1);
 }
 function runFormatCommand(formatCommand) {
     if (formatCommand === undefined) {

package/dist/esm/releasePrepareTargets.js

@@ -179,9 +179,7 @@ function describeStage(target) {
     }
 }
 function maybeEmitBaselineHint(target, knownPrefixes, state) {
-    if (state.emitted)
-        return;
-    if ((target.legacyIdentities?.length ?? 0) > 0)
+    if (state.emitted || (target.legacyIdentities?.length ?? 0) > 0)
         return;
     const candidates = detectUndeclaredTagPrefixes(knownPrefixes);
     if (candidates.length === 0)

package/dist/esm/renderReleaseNotes.js

@@ -33,11 +33,12 @@ export function renderReleaseNotesSingle(entry, options) {
         for (const [index, item] of section.items.entries()) {
             const prefix = item.breaking === true ? getBreakingPrefix() : '';
             lines.push(`- ${prefix}${item.description}`);
-            if (item.body !== undefined && item.body.length > 0) {
-                lines.push('', ...indentBodyLines(item.body));
-                if (index < section.items.length - 1) {
-                    lines.push('');
-                }
+            if (item.body === undefined || item.body.length === 0) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            lines.push('', ...indentBodyLines(item.body));
+            if (index < section.items.length - 1) {
+                lines.push('');
             }
         }
     }

package/dist/esm/reportPrepare.js

@@ -204,10 +204,11 @@ function formatChangelogFiles(lines, release, dryRun, style, indent = '') {
             lines.push(dim(`${indent}    Kept from the existing changelog: ${preservation.preservedVersions.join(', ')}`));
         }
         const dropped = preservation.droppedUnversionedHeadings;
-        if (dropped.length > 0) {
-            const message = `Dropped ${dropped.length} section${dropped.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} without a version: ${dropped.join(', ')}`;
-            lines.push(`${indent}    ${formatStatusLine(style, 'warning', message)}`);
+        if (dropped.length === 0) {
+            continue;
         }
+        const message = `Dropped ${dropped.length} section${dropped.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} without a version: ${dropped.join(', ')}`;
+        lines.push(`${indent}    ${formatStatusLine(style, 'warning', message)}`);
     }
     const removedFiles = release.removedChangelogFiles ?? [];
     for (const file of removedFiles) {
@@ -276,14 +277,15 @@ function formatChangeRecordWarnings(lines, release, style, indent = '') {
             lines.push(`${indent}    · ${shortHash} '${truncateSubject(entry.commitSubject)}': type '${entry.type}' at entry ${entry.entryPosition}`);
         }
     }
-    if (unroutedEntryScopes.length > 0) {
-        const count = unroutedEntryScopes.length;
-        const header = `${count} change-record entry scope${count === 1 ? ' does not match' : 's do not match'} any workspace in the commit's window (no item there)`;
-        lines.push(`${indent}  ${formatStatusLine(style, 'warning', `${header}:`)}`);
-        for (const finding of unroutedEntryScopes) {
-            const shortHash = finding.commitHash.slice(0, 7);
-            lines.push(`${indent}    · ${shortHash} '${truncateSubject(finding.commitSubject)}': scope '${finding.scope}' at entry ${finding.entryPosition}`);
-        }
+    if (unroutedEntryScopes.length === 0) {
+        return;
+    }
+    const count = unroutedEntryScopes.length;
+    const header = `${count} change-record entry scope${count === 1 ? ' does not match' : 's do not match'} any workspace in the commit's window (no item there)`;
+    lines.push(`${indent}  ${formatStatusLine(style, 'warning', `${header}:`)}`);
+    for (const finding of unroutedEntryScopes) {
+        const shortHash = finding.commitHash.slice(0, 7);
+        lines.push(`${indent}    · ${shortHash} '${truncateSubject(finding.commitSubject)}': scope '${finding.scope}' at entry ${finding.entryPosition}`);
     }
 }
 function formatPropagationSuffix(propagatedFrom) {

package/dist/esm/stripScope.js

@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ export function stripScope(message) {
     let remainder = message;
     for (const pattern of TICKET_PREFIX_PATTERNS) {
         const match = remainder.match(pattern);
-        if (match) {
-            ticketPrefix += match[0];
-            remainder = remainder.slice(match[0].length);
+        if (!match) {
+            continue;
         }
+        ticketPrefix += match[0];
+        remainder = remainder.slice(match[0].length);
     }
     const pipeMatch = remainder.match(PIPE_SCOPE_PATTERN);
     if (pipeMatch) {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@williamthorsen/release-kit",
-  "version": "14.2.0",
+  "version": "14.2.2",
   "description": "Version-bumping and changelog-generation toolkit for release workflows",
   "keywords": [
     "changelog",
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
     "schemas/**"
   ],
   "dependencies": {
-    "@williamthorsen/change-grammar": "0.2.0",
-    "@williamthorsen/nmr-core": "0.13.3",
+    "@williamthorsen/change-grammar": "0.2.1",
+    "@williamthorsen/nmr-core": "0.13.4",
     "@williamthorsen/toolbelt.errors": "0.8.3",
     "json-stringify-pretty-compact": "4.0.0",
     "semver": "7.8.5",
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@
     "@williamthorsen/toolbelt.vitest": "0.10.3",
     "actionlint": "2.0.6",
     "esbuild": "0.28.2",
-    "readyup": "0.40.0",
-    "smol-toml": "1.9.0",
+    "readyup": "0.41.0",
+    "smol-toml": "1.9.1",
     "vitest": "4.1.11"
   },
   "engines": {