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feat(release): support alpha releases

Node.js 27 introduces Alpha releases versioned as
vN.0.0-alpha.X.Y.Z (see nodejs/node#63135). Teach `git node release`
about them:

- --prepare detects alpha release lines from the NODE_ALPHA_*_VERSION
  macros in src/node_version.h, computes the next alpha version from
  the semver labels of the commits, and accepts
  --newVersion=N.0.0-alpha.X.Y.Z.
- When CHANGELOG_V{N}.md does not exist yet, --prepare creates it,
  updates the navigation of the other changelogs and the root
  CHANGELOG.md, and groups the commit list by semver-major, minor and
  patch.
- --newVersion=N.0.0 on an alpha release line prepares the first
  stable release, removing the alpha macros and relabelling Alpha
  entries as Current.
- --promote validates "(Alpha)" release commits, creates their GitHub
  releases as pre-releases, and, when promoting N.0.0, bumps main to
  N+1 with the alpha macros reset to 0.
- Fix the "Working on" commit corrupting node_version.h when the patch
  version goes from 9 to 10.

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/Release/issues/1187

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feat(release): support alpha releases
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Node.js 27 introduces Alpha releases versioned as
vN.0.0-alpha.X.Y.Z (see nodejs/node#63135). Teach `git node release`
about them:

- --prepare detects alpha release lines from the NODE_ALPHA_*_VERSION
  macros in src/node_version.h, computes the next alpha version from
  the semver labels of the commits, and accepts
  --newVersion=N.0.0-alpha.X.Y.Z.
- When CHANGELOG_V{N}.md does not exist yet, --prepare creates it,
  updates the navigation of the other changelogs and the root
  CHANGELOG.md, and groups the commit list by semver-major, minor and
  patch.
- --newVersion=N.0.0 on an alpha release line prepares the first
  stable release, removing the alpha macros and relabelling Alpha
  entries as Current.
- --promote validates "(Alpha)" release commits, creates their GitHub
  releases as pre-releases, and, when promoting N.0.0, bumps main to
  N+1 with the alpha macros reset to 0.
- Fix the "Working on" commit corrupting node_version.h when the patch
  version goes from 9 to 10.

Refs: nodejs/Release#1187
Signed-off-by: RafaelGSS <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com>
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❌ Patch coverage is 80.00000% with 75 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 65.07%. Comparing base (ff0f558) to head (6148b2c).
⚠️ Report is 4 commits behind head on main.

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PTAL @nodejs/releasers

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fixup! feat(release): support alpha releases
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Signed-off-by: RafaelGSS <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com>
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RafaelGSS commented Oct 27, 2026

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I'm going to use it for v27 preparation, let's remove the "blocked" label after it.

@RafaelGSS RafaelGSS added do not land PR's that are on hold, and shouldn't land and removed do not land PR's that are on hold, and shouldn't land labels Oct 27, 2026
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It worked nodejs/node#67062.

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