From fe0b1a75e2b135baa16d15bb513b66a110d28464 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andres Almiray <aalmiray@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 23:26:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [changelog] Handle regex inputs for labelers. Fixes #213

---
 .../src/main/java/org/jreleaser/util/StringUtils.java | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/jreleaser-utils/src/main/java/org/jreleaser/util/StringUtils.java b/core/jreleaser-utils/src/main/java/org/jreleaser/util/StringUtils.java
index 3ec66bb7..4e1b1c2d 100644
--- a/core/jreleaser-utils/src/main/java/org/jreleaser/util/StringUtils.java
+++ b/core/jreleaser-utils/src/main/java/org/jreleaser/util/StringUtils.java
@@ -610,7 +610,16 @@ public class StringUtils {
     }
 
     public static String toSafeRegexPattern(String str) {
-        return ".*" + escapeRegexChars(str) + ".*";
+        StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
+        if (!str.startsWith("^")) {
+            b.append(".*");
+        }
+        b.append(str);
+        if (!str.endsWith("$")) {
+            b.append(".*");
+        }
+
+        return b.toString();
     }
 
     public static Pattern toSafePattern(String str) {