Release is a minimalistic, opinionated, and predictable release automation tool designed for GitHub projects. It analyzes commit history using Conventional Commits to determine the next version, runs a publishing script, creates Git tags and commits, generates GitHub releases with notes, and comments on relevant issues and pull requests. The tool enforces quality checks via `publint`, ensures clean Git history by creating release commits only after successful publishing, and is driven by a configuration file rather than labels or triggers.