Hello everyone !

I’m currently developping a changelog application that used the webhook : releaseEvent to recover data.

The 18 April of 2019 new releaseEvent actions  where added (https://developer.github.com/changes/) :  created, ** edited,  deleted,  prereleased,  **unpublished

I just want to receive a webhook when a prerelease change to release (prerelease -> release) but :

• The edited  action is triggered only on name and body modification ( not the prerelease parameter )
• The prereleased action is triggered only when a release change to prerelease BUT NOT THE REVERSE

Is there something I’m missing ?

What is the point of the prereleased action ? (release -> prerelease shouldn’t happen that much)

UPDATE (24/04/2019)

Response from GitHub Support : 

Thanks for reaching out, Leo. Please find answers and notes inline below.

• Is there something I’m missing ?

I don’t think you’re missing anything. I agree it would be useful if there was a way to get notified when a prerelease is made into a full release, so I passed your feedback along to the team to consider for the future.

• What is the point of the prereleased action ? (release -> prerelease shouldn’t happen that much)

The point is to be notified when release is made into a prerelease. I understand that this doesn’t seem useful to you, but different users have different use-cases and those other users find it useful. How often something happens doesn’t really make a webhook more or less useful. Even if it happens rarely - you want to be notified when it happens.

Thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback.

UPDATE (10/09/2019)

A new action " released" have been added for the webhook releaseEvent and is sent when a prerelease change to a release.

Thank to the development team 🎉