@@ -2,3 +2,21 @@ needs release notes:
   - all:
     - changed-files:
       - all-globs-to-all-files: '!changes/*.md'
+
+# Subpackage labels: a pull request whose changes all live under one package
+# directory gets that package's label, which .github/release.yml uses to keep
+# subpackage work out of the generated `zarr` release notes.
+zarr-metadata:
+  - all:
+    - changed-files:
+      - all-globs-to-all-files: 'packages/zarr-metadata/**'
+
+zarr-indexing:
+  - all:
+    - changed-files:
+      - all-globs-to-all-files: 'packages/zarr-indexing/**'
+
+zarr-http-server:
+  - all:
+    - changed-files:
+      - all-globs-to-all-files: 'packages/zarr-http-server/**'
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Configuration for GitHub's "Generate release notes" button.
+#
+# The zarr-python repository also hosts the companion packages under packages/
+# (zarr-metadata, zarr-indexing, zarr-http-server), which have their own release
+# cadence, tags and changelogs. Pull requests that only touch a subpackage are
+# labelled by the labeler workflow (.github/labeler.yml) and excluded here, so a
+# `zarr` release lists only the changes that ship in `zarr`.
+changelog:
+  exclude:
+    labels:
+      - zarr-metadata
+      - zarr-indexing
+      - zarr-http-server
+    authors:
+      - pre-commit-ci[bot]
+  categories:
+    - title: Dependency updates
+      labels:
+        - dependencies
+    - title: What's Changed
+      labels:
+        - "*"