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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# Configuration for Release Drafter: https://github.com/toolmantim/release-drafter
+name-template: $NEXT_PATCH_VERSION
+tag-template: $NEXT_PATCH_VERSION
+version-template: $MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH
+
+# Emoji reference: https://gitmoji.carloscuesta.me/
+categories:
+  - title: ":boom: Breaking changes"
+    labels: 
+      - breaking
+  - title: 🚨 Removed
+    label: removed
+  - title: ":tada: Major features and improvements"
+    labels:
+      - major-enhancement
+      - major-rfe
+  - title: 🐛 Major bug fixes
+    labels:
+      - major-bug
+  - title: ⚠️ Deprecated
+    label: deprecated
+  - title: 🚀 New features and improvements
+    labels:
+      - enhancement
+      - feature
+      - rfe
+  - title: 🐛 Bug Fixes
+    labels:
+      - bug
+      - fix
+      - bugfix
+      - regression
+  - title: ":construction_worker: Changes for developers"
+    labels:
+      - developer 
+  # Default label used by Dependabot
+  - title: 📦 Dependency updates
+    label: dependencies
+  - title: 📝 Documentation updates
+    label: documentation
+  - title: 👻 Maintenance
+    labels: 
+      - chore
+      - internal
+      - maintenance
+  - title: 🔧 Build
+    label: build      
+  - title: 🚦 Tests
+    labels: 
+      - test
+      - tests
+exclude-labels:
+  - reverted
+  - no-changelog
+  - skip-changelog
+  - invalid
+
+template: |
+  <!-- Optional: add a release summary here -->
+  $CHANGES
+  
+replacers:
+  - search: '/\[(.*)-(\d+)\]*\s*-*\s*/g'
+    replace: '[[$1-$2]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/$1-$2) - '