EPMRPP-118506 || Update script for proper formatting of AUTO Release Notes. Part 3

[VaheSamsonyan]

Description

Extends transformBody in scripts/release-utils.js (used by both sync-releases.js and update-release.js) to fix three formatting issues seen in auto-synced GitHub release notes:

Line breaks — a single newline between two paragraph lines (no blank line) renders fine on GitHub but collapses into one run-on line in Docusaurus. Consecutive plain-text lines now get an explicit 'br' inserted between them.
List markers — unordered list items copied from GitHub (- item) are now converted to * item for consistency with the docs' preferred style.
Subheadings — headings like # 1. What's new: (H1, wrapped in bold) are now normalized to a real, non-bold H2 (## 1. What's new:), while genuine nested subheadings (e.g. ### Service-api) are left at their original level.

All three transforms are fence/code-block aware, so fenced (``` and ~~~) and indented (4-space) code samples in release notes are left untouched, and correctly skip horizontal rules, tables, blockquotes, and lists rather than misapplying the line-break logic to them.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Release notes now use more consistent heading levels and formatting.
  • List items are rendered with standardized bullet markers.
  • Consecutive lines receive improved spacing for easier reading.
  • Content inside fenced code blocks remains unchanged.

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Walkthrough

The release utility now preprocesses release bodies with fence-aware heading normalization, list-marker conversion, and line-break insertion before applying existing image, URL, and ReportPortal transformations.

Changes

Release body preprocessing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fence-aware Markdown normalization scripts/release-utils.js	Adds structural-line classification and updates headings and list markers outside fenced code blocks.
Line-break insertion and transform pipeline scripts/release-utils.js	Adds <br /> tags between consecutive non-structural lines and runs the new passes before existing transformations.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 297a4

Release-note synchronization now reformats Markdown, but several valid Markdown constructs can be changed into different rendered content, including code blocks, horizontal rules, and hard breaks. Resolve these formatting defects before merging to avoid publishing malformed release notes.

Suggested reviewers: allaprischepa

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the script update and its purpose: improving formatting for automatic release notes. The issue identifier and part number add useful context.

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And makes the list markers align
Through code fences it hops with care
Adding breaks where text needs air
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Inline comments:
In `@scripts/release-utils.js`:
- Around line 197-198: Update isFenceLine and the related fence-processing logic
to track the active fence marker and opener length, supporting both backtick and
tilde fences. Only close a fenced block when the candidate line uses the same
marker as the opener and has at least the opener’s length, preventing shorter
backtick lines from closing longer fences.
- Line 260: Update the line classification around isStructuralLine so indented
code-block lines are treated as structural before line-break insertion. Ensure
consecutive lines indented by four spaces do not receive an appended <br />
while preserving existing handling for other structural lines.
- Around line 245-247: Update the line-processing logic around the existing
horizontal-rule check and list-marker replacement to recognize horizontal rules
containing optional spaces between marker characters, such as “- - -”. Return
those lines unchanged, while preserving conversion behavior for actual list
markers.
- Line 261: Update the hard-break detection condition in the line-processing
logic to recognize lines ending with a backslash, alongside the existing
whitespace and br-tag cases, so the later append logic does not add an extra br
tag.

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