Open Source Summit North America 2025

You may be too young to remember the days when we used to release software manually. We used to have to wait for the release engineer or team or somebody wearing that hat to get the release ready, lock dependencies (if you were lucky), create a tag, deploy it,... Now we can release software multiple times per day, and we do not need to wait for any release engineer to do it.

But how to you do this? how do you manage multiple dependencies, their versions, and the impact of each change?

In this talk we will see how to use some tools and best practices to automatically cut new versions and update dependencies with no humans involved. We will cover concepts like conventional commits and tools such as commitizen and renovate to help us get rid of the tedious tasks of releasing software and updating dependencies.