Informing Sentry about the latest release version in GitHub - github-actions

Question

I am using the getsentry/action-release#v1 GitHub Action to inform Sentry about new releases in my GitHub application. However, since I am using tags as the version number, I would like to inform sentry about the latest tag available on the release page. I'm having issues doing that while using environment variables.
Here is my job:
inform_sentry_about_release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- name: Set GITHUB_VERSION variable
run: |
echo 'GITHUB_LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -H "Authorization: token ${ACCESS_TOKEN}" "https://api.github.com/repos/myusername/myreponame/releases" -s | jq -r ".[0].tag_name")' >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Create Sentry release
uses: getsentry/action-release#v1
env:
SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
SENTRY_ORG: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_ORG }}
SENTRY_PROJECT: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_PROJECT }}
with:
environment: production
version: ${{ GITHUB_LATEST_RELEASE }}
My Github workflow is failing with the following error:
The workflow is not valid. .github/workflows/production-label.yml (Line: 131, Col: 20): Unrecognized named-value: 'GITHUB_LATEST_RELEASE'. Located at position 1 within expression: GITHUB_LATEST_RELEASE
According to How do I dynamically set an environment variable in a github composite action step?, it appears that I should be able to just echo a key=val to the GITHUB_ENV and then call it in the next step, but no luck.
Line 131 specifically refers to this:
version: ${{ GITHUB_LATEST_RELEASE }}
Is there a different way I'm supposed to access this environment variable from this line? I've tried $GITHUB_LATEST_RELEASE and still no luck with that either.

Answer 1

The environment variable should be accessed in the following way:
version: ${{ env.GITHUB_LATEST_RELEASE }}
Please note, that the names of environment variables are case-sensitive, and you can include punctuation.
Example:
steps:
- name: Set the value
id: step_one
run: |
echo "action_state=yellow" >> $GITHUB_ENV
- name: Use the value
id: step_two
run: |
echo "${{ env.action_state }}" # This will output 'yellow'
For more information check the Setting an environment variable.