From 8289946dc2b17fd28e0d82af83d868ab58291947 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lee Hannigan <lhnng@amazon.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 19:38:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ci: add release-please workflow for automated versioning
 and changelogs

---
 .github/workflows/release-please.yml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/release-please.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..83efec61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+name: Release Please
+
+jobs:
+  release-please:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
+        with:
+          release-type: rust

From 0d927337dc457df8836bb113c591d5cae55e6009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lee Hannigan <lhnng@amazon.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 22:24:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ci: add release-please manifest at v0.1.0 baseline

Sets the starting version so release-please doesn't crawl full history.
Adds config file and updates workflow to reference both.
---
 .github/workflows/release-please.yml | 3 ++-
 .release-please-manifest.json        | 3 +++
 release-please-config.json           | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .release-please-manifest.json
 create mode 100644 release-please-config.json

diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
index 83efec61..6bb8fe19 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-please.yml
@@ -15,4 +15,5 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: googleapis/release-please-action@v4
         with:
-          release-type: rust
+          config-file: release-please-config.json
+          manifest-file: .release-please-manifest.json
diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..466df71c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  ".": "0.1.0"
+}
diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..13eb2ec0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "packages": {
+    ".": {
+      "release-type": "rust",
+      "bump-minor-pre-major": true
+    }
+  }
+}