From 06ad6488cc3709860bdb4b6dbb146d43171753cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mahee96 <47920326+mahee96@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:08:46 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] CI: changelog in md was incorrect in release notes

---
 scripts/ci/generate_release_notes.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/ci/generate_release_notes.py b/scripts/ci/generate_release_notes.py
index 8d1c9606..e1299799 100644
--- a/scripts/ci/generate_release_notes.py
+++ b/scripts/ci/generate_release_notes.py
@@ -152,11 +152,14 @@ def generate_release_notes(last_successful, tag, branch):
 
 def ref_display(ref):
     try:
-        tag = run(f'git describe --tags --exact-match "{ref}" 2>/dev/null || true')
-        if tag:
+        tag = run(f'git describe --tags --exact-match "{ref}" 2>/dev/null || true').strip()
+
+        # allow only semantic version tags: X.Y.Z
+        if re.fullmatch(r'\d+\.\d+\.\d+', tag):
             return tag
     except Exception:
         pass
+
     return ref[:8]