Creating release fails silently

[bjornpijnacker]

TL;DR

The action finishes without failing but a release is not created.

Expected behavior

A release is created.

Observed behavior

A release was not created. The logging does not indicate why not.

Action YAML

release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - uses: google-github-actions/release-please-action@v4
        with:
          release-type: simple
          skip-github-pull-request: true

Log output

##[debug]Evaluating condition for step: 'Run google-github-actions/release-please-action@v4'
##[debug]Evaluating: success()
##[debug]Evaluating success:
##[debug]=> true
##[debug]Result: true
##[debug]Starting: Run google-github-actions/release-please-action@v4
##[debug]Loading inputs
##[debug]Evaluating: github.token
##[debug]Evaluating Index:
##[debug]..Evaluating github:
##[debug]..=> Object
##[debug]..Evaluating String:
##[debug]..=> 'token'
##[debug]=> '***'
##[debug]Result: '***'
##[debug]Evaluating: github.repository
##[debug]Evaluating Index:
##[debug]..Evaluating github:
##[debug]..=> Object
##[debug]..Evaluating String:
##[debug]..=> 'repository'
##[debug]=> 'bjornpijnacker/studentbeheerder'
##[debug]Result: 'bjornpijnacker/studentbeheerder'
##[debug]Evaluating: github.api_url
##[debug]Evaluating Index:
##[debug]..Evaluating github:
##[debug]..=> Object
##[debug]..Evaluating String:
##[debug]..=> 'api_url'
##[debug]=> 'https://api.github.com'
##[debug]Result: 'https://api.github.com'
##[debug]Evaluating: github.graphql_url
##[debug]Evaluating Index:
##[debug]..Evaluating github:
##[debug]..=> Object
##[debug]..Evaluating String:
##[debug]..=> 'graphql_url'
##[debug]=> 'https://api.github.com/graphql'
##[debug]Result: 'https://api.github.com/graphql'
##[debug]Evaluating: github.server_url
##[debug]Evaluating Index:
##[debug]..Evaluating github:
##[debug]..=> Object
##[debug]..Evaluating String:
##[debug]..=> 'server_url'
##[debug]=> 'https://github.com'
##[debug]Result: 'https://github.com'
##[debug]Loading env
Run google-github-actions/release-please-action@v4
Running release-please version: 16.10.0
##[debug]Building manifest from config
✔ Looking for latest release on branch: main with prefix: 
❯ Fetching merge commits on branch main with cursor: undefined
❯ Fetching merge commits on branch main with cursor: c125fd5bf034c83a21f678c4d58aaf456a93a8b4 24
❯ Fetching releases with cursor undefined
❯ found release for  Version {
  major: 0,
  minor: 0,
  patch: 0,
  preRelease: undefined,
  build: undefined
}
❯ found 1 possible releases. [
  Version {
    major: 0,
    minor: 0,
    patch: 0,
    preRelease: undefined,
    build: undefined
  }
]
##[debug]Creating pull requests
✔ Building releases
✔ Building strategies by path
❯ .: simple
##[debug]Node Action run completed with exit code 0
##[debug]Set output releases_created = false
##[debug]Set output paths_released = []
##[debug]Finishing: Run google-github-actions/release-please-action@v4

Additional information

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