v2.5.0 finalizeRelease fails silently in matrix jobs (race condition + swallowed API errors)

[JacobTweeten]

Summary

After upgrading from softprops/action-gh-release@v2.4.2 to v2.5.0, our release pipeline began failing with:

Run softprops/action-gh-release@v2

Found release <release> (with id=123456789)
♻️ Deleting previously uploaded asset <release>.tar.gz...
⬆️ Uploading <release>.tar.gz...
✅ Uploaded <release>.tar.gz
Finalizing release...
retrying... (2 retries remaining)
retrying... (1 retries remaining)
retrying... (0 retries remaining)
❌ Too many retries. Aborting...
Error: Too many retries.

No error message is printed, even though the GitHub API call is failing.

Pinning back to v2.4.2 resolves the issue immediately.

This strongly suggests a regression introduced in v2.5.0, specifically related to the new “draft until all artifacts are uploaded” feature introduced in PR #692 .

Reproduction

• Release workflow with multiple build jobs (matrix or separate workflows)
• All jobs upload assets to the same tag
• action-gh-release@v2.5.0

Behavior

• The first job to finish successfully finalizes the release
• After that, every other job fails during the finalize step
• The action retries three times and then aborts.
  No underlying API error is printed, making the failure difficult to diagnose.

Expected Behavior

• One of the jobs succeeds in finalizing the release
• Other jobs skip finalize or succeed harmlessly

Actual Behavior

• GitHub API likely returns an error
• The action's finalizeRelease() catch block does not capture or log the error, because it uses catch {} without an error parameter
• Only the first job succeds, Every other job retries 3× and fails, leaving the workflow broken