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When a product publishes a release, the version-follow pull request now releases the CLI too:

Release 8.0.0-rc.31: follow the products' released versions: @prisma/orm-toolchain 8.0.0-rc.22 -> 8.0.0-rc.23

update-product-versions.yml moves the pins as before, then runs pnpm bump-version. When the pull request passes its checks and merges, the root version changes, so publish.yml publishes the release under latest. No person needs to cut it.

Why

prisma@8.0.0-rc.29 pinned @prisma/orm-toolchain 8.0.0-rc.21 for four days after ORM rc.22 shipped. A project on ORM rc.22 installed two toolchains, and the CLI ran the old one (reported on Discord).

• The follow pull request Follow the products' released versions: @prisma/orm-toolchain 8.0.0-rc.21 -> 8.0.0-rc.22 #381 merged on 2026-10-31, but it shipped only a dev build.
• The release pull request Bump to version 8.0.0-rc.30 #380 waited four days for a review.

The same thing happened with rc.21 in October. A CLI behind a product release breaks every project on that release, so the release should not wait for someone to remember it.

What changes

1. The follow pull request bumps the version. It runs pnpm bump-version and stages every file it changes: the workspace manifests, the lockfile and the version stamp in skills/prisma-platform-core-concepts/SKILL.md. The title starts with Release <version>:.
2. Open release pull requests are closed as superseded. A Bump to version pull request would race the same version number. Older follow pull requests are closed as before.
3. Pins on main that no release shipped are released. Suppose a maintainer's release merges first and takes the version number. Then the follow pull request's squash changes no version and ships only a dev build, and the registry comparison finds nothing left to move. So on the release channel, update-product-versions.mjs now compares main's pins with the manifests at the last release's tag, v<version>. The next run, or the daily run at the latest, opens a release for those pins. The checkout fetches tags for this.
4. bump-version passes --no-frozen-lockfile, because pnpm defaults to a frozen lockfile in CI.

A release for a change in this repository alone is still cut by a maintainer. docs/oss/release-automation.md, docs/oss/versioning.md and the README now say this. They also say the merge still needs the one approving review the main ruleset requires, which CodeRabbit gives today.

How it was checked

• pnpm bump-version with CI=true moved rc.30 to rc.31 and changed exactly those files. git add -u stages exactly them.
• New tests for pinChanges, and pnpm test:scripts passes (89 tests). actionlint and pnpm lint pass.
• Against the real registry: on main today, the release channel reports no change. With the root version set back to rc.29, it reports the three pins rc.30 shipped.

Alternatives considered

• Keep releases manual, and open the release pull request automatically for a person to approve. This removes the step of remembering, but Bump to version 8.0.0-rc.30 #380 shows an approval can wait for days.
• Only alert when prisma@latest falls behind. The nightly getting-started check in prisma/getting-started-eval now does this, as a second line of defence. Alone, it reports the problem without fixing it.

Related: prisma/orm#30944 makes the ORM's publish workflow notify this repository at once. It read a secret that was never set, so the follow pull request waited for the daily run. Refs TML-3439.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Product releases can trigger an automatic CLI release with updated product versions published to the latest channel. Routine updates to the main branch continue to publish dev builds.
  • Automated release pull requests close competing version-update requests and can be merged after required checks and review are complete.

• Documentation

  • Updated release and versioning guides with the automated workflow, approval requirements, and troubleshooting steps.

Walkthrough

The update script compares current product pins with manifests from the current version tag when available and uses registry updates as a fallback. The workflow bumps the CLI version and opens a versioned release pull request when changes are detected. It closes competing version-update pull requests before opening the new one. The lockfile-only install command disables frozen-lockfile mode. The README and release documentation describe the updated release and versioning flow.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to bb281

This change makes product-version updates release the CLI automatically, with documentation to match. No concrete merge-blocking problem was found. Normal checks and the required approval still apply.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 75.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: product releases will also release the CLI, preventing prisma@latest from pinning an older ORM toolchain.
Description check		The description directly explains the workflow, versioning, release-channel, testing, and documentation changes in the pull request.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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