Prepare release 1.5.0

Author: ericof

CHANGELOG.md

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 <!-- towncrier release notes start -->
+
+## 1.5.0 (2026-09-04)
+
+
+### Feature
+
+- Added an `env_file_path` input, which reads the additional environment variables from a file instead of taking them as content. `env_file` keeps its current meaning, so nothing breaks; supplying both is an error. @ericof [#3](https://github.com/kitconcept/docker-stack-deploy/issues/3)
+
+
+### Bugfix
+
+- Fixed a stray newline or space in `remote_host` (or `registry`, `username`, `remote_port`, `remote_user`) breaking the deploy with an opaque `ssh: Could not resolve hostname`. Whitespace is now removed from those inputs, and the log says when it was. @ericof [#1](https://github.com/kitconcept/docker-stack-deploy/issues/1)
+- Fixed the deploy waiting until it timed out on a `mode: replicated-job` service that had already run to completion. @ericof [#13](https://github.com/kitconcept/docker-stack-deploy/issues/13)
+- Fixed the deploy waiting until it timed out on services the stack file scales to zero, and added the `docker stack ps` task list to the output when a deploy fails. @ericof [#19](https://github.com/kitconcept/docker-stack-deploy/issues/19)
+- Fixed `env_file` values containing spaces being truncated to their first word. Each line is now read whole and the value taken verbatim, matching `docker --env-file`. @ericof [#21](https://github.com/kitconcept/docker-stack-deploy/issues/21)
+
+
+### Internal
+
+- Added a bats test suite for the shell scripts, run in CI together with shellcheck. @ericof 
+- Added towncrier to manage the change log, with a CI check that every pull request carries a news fragment. @ericof 
+- Updated the base image to `docker:29.5.3-cli-alpine3.23`. @dependabot 
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Documented how values reach the stack file, with worked examples for `env_file`, `env_file_path` and `stack_param`, and noted that `stack_param` is a one-variable special case of `env_file`. @ericof [#2](https://github.com/kitconcept/docker-stack-deploy/issues/2)

action.yml

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ inputs:
     default: ""
 runs:
   using: 'docker'
-  image: 'docker://ghcr.io/kitconcept/docker-stack-deploy:latest'
+  image: 'docker://ghcr.io/kitconcept/docker-stack-deploy:1.5.0'
   env:
     REGISTRY: ${{ inputs.registry }}
     USERNAME: ${{ inputs.username }}