semantic-release-jsr

semantic-release plugin to publish a package to JSR.

Step	Description
verifyConditions	Validates options, locates the JSR config file, and runs jsr publish --dry-run.
prepare	Writes the next release version into jsr.json, deno.json, or deno.jsonc.
publish	Runs jsr publish from the package directory.

Install

npm install --save-dev semantic-release @sourceregistry/semantic-release-jsr

Usage

{
  "plugins": [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
    "@sourceregistry/semantic-release-jsr"
  ]
}

Requirements

• A JSR package config file: jsr.json, deno.json, or deno.jsonc
• A non-empty name property in that config file
• Authentication that works with the jsr CLI

This plugin invokes jsr publish, not deno publish directly. That means plugin options only cover flags currently exposed by the JSR CLI.

JSR supports GitHub Actions OIDC for linked repositories. If you use token-based auth instead, either configure the environment expected by the jsr CLI in your CI job or set tokenEnvVar so the plugin passes --token explicitly.

GitHub Actions

Example release job for a project that uses this plugin:

name: Release

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

permissions:
  contents: write
  id-token: write
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: 24
          cache: npm
      - run: npm clean-install
      - run: npx semantic-release
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

If your JSR package uses token-based auth instead of OIDC, also provide the environment variable expected by the jsr CLI in that job.

Options

Option	Description	Default
pkgRoot	Directory containing the JSR config file.	.
configFile	Explicit config file path relative to pkgRoot or absolute.	Auto-detect jsr.json, then deno.json, then deno.jsonc
tokenEnvVar	Environment variable name whose value should be passed to jsr publish --token ....	Unset
allowSlowTypes	Whether to pass --allow-slow-types to jsr publish and jsr publish --dry-run.	false

allowDirty is intentionally not supported at this time. While deno publish documents --allow-dirty, the current jsr publish CLI does not expose that flag.

Example

{
  "plugins": [
    "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
    "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
    [
      "@sourceregistry/semantic-release-jsr",
      {
        "pkgRoot": "dist",
        "configFile": "deno.jsonc",
        "tokenEnvVar": "JSR_TOKEN",
        "allowSlowTypes": true
      }
    ]
  ]
}

GitLab CI

In GitLab CI, the plugin forwards the job environment to the jsr CLI. That means Alpine users can point JSR at a working Deno binary with DENO_BIN_PATH, and token-based auth can be passed explicitly with tokenEnvVar.

release:
  image: node:22-alpine
  script:
    - apk add --no-cache deno
    - npx semantic-release
  variables:
    DENO_BIN_PATH: /usr/bin/deno
    JSR_TOKEN: $JSR_TOKEN