Ignore prerelease notifications

[samfundev]

When watching a repository it's only possible to get notifications for any release, including prereleases. Some repositories use prereleases as a nightly build which means getting notified everyday. I would like to get notified only when a stable release happens, so that I can see what's changed in the latest stable version.

[GabyCT]

Please take a look at https://docs.github.com/es/account-and-profile/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/setting-up-notifications/configuring-notifications#about-participating-and-watching-notifications

[samfundev]

Sorry, I don't understand how this is supposed to help me. I already selected to only receive notifications for releases, but I cannot exclude preleases.

[hugo082]

Would love to be able to filter by release version, e.g. being able to get notifications only for major or minor releases, not patches

[0xpr03]

Same here, please allow me to ignore pre-release, or even better: blacklist certain names.

I don't want "nightly" release notifications, or "rc.2". That's the point I may as well ignore the releases at all.

[AMDmi3]

Seconded. There are projects which releases are critical to me, but these also do nighly builds which are published as (pre-)releases:

https://github.com/widelands/widelands/releases
https://github.com/buddhi1980/mandelbulber2/releases

Watching releases for these projects via watch->custom->releases knob as on the screenshot above makes by feed polluted by prereleases which I don't need, making the whole watch feature useless. So it would be nice to have an option to exclude prereleases from the watch.

[u3u]

Totally agree, I just want to be notified of the latest release of next.js: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases

We need the "Latest releases only" option

[josStorer]

Totally agree, also I think it would be better to provide Watch All Activity But Ignore Pre-release in the watch drop-down list, especially for tiny repositories that many people will watch all activity but not hope to get emails of pre-release

[t0ma5]

One more for ignore pre-releases... I get too many useless notifications :(

[LeoDog896]

I use automated releases for data collection and it also causes clutter on my notifications & feed for myself and my friends:

[mh4ckt3mh4ckt1c4s]

Same here, I want to watch the stable releases of podman-desktop but they do a prerelease for each new commit which make the amount of notifications useless and boring.

[AndreCunha1]

Seems like a duplicate of #4993, but anyway I am upvoting and subscribing to both just in case 😄

[samfundev]

This definitely does seem like a duplicate, closing in favor of #4993. If you haven't, go upvote that discussion.