More fixes for PR detection among releases

Author: agriyakhetarpal

noxfile.py

@@ -120,21 +120,34 @@ def release(session: nox.Session) -> None:
     template_path = DIR / "release_notes" / template_name
     template = string.Template(template_path.read_text())
 
-    commit_log = subprocess.run(
+    # Get the date of the previous tag to filter PRs merged after it
+    prev_date = subprocess.run(
+        ["git", "log", "-1", "--format=%aI", previous_tag],
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        check=True,
+    ).stdout.strip()
+
+    pr_log = subprocess.run(
         [
-            "git",
-            "log",
-            f"{previous_tag}...HEAD",
-            "--pretty=format:- %s by @%an in %H",
-            "--no-merges",
+            "gh",
+            "pr",
+            "list",
+            "--state=merged",
+            "--search",
+            f"merged:>{prev_date}",
+            "--json",
+            "number,title,author",
+            "--jq",
+            '.[] | select(.author.login != "dependabot[bot]" and .author.login != "pre-commit-ci[bot]") | "- \\(.title) by @\\(.author.login) in #\\(.number)"',
         ],
         capture_output=True,
         text=True,
         check=True,
     ).stdout.strip()
 
-    if commit_log:
-        changes_section = f"\n## Changes that made it to this release\n\n{commit_log}\n"
+    if pr_log:
+        changes_section = f"\n## Changes that made it to this release\n\n{pr_log}\n"
     else:
         changes_section = ""