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ChangesetLabelCheck
Last updated: July 13, 2026
This check enforces the Liquibase best-practice recommendation to assign labels to every changeset to provide better deployment control and to enhance traceability and granularity of deployments across changesets.
Uses
Property | Value |
Liquibase version required | 4.5.0+ |
Scope (--checks- | changelog |
Default status | enabled |
Default severity (exit code) | 0 ("INFO") |
Customizable settings | No (static) |
Use the check to enhance deployment control of specific changesets by requiring labels be assigned to every changeset in a changelog. Whether in automation or manual testing of proposed schema changes at the dev level, labels provide better deployment control. Using labels allows just the changesets which match specified label filter(s) to be run. For example, a team could label change sets by release, or branch name, or developer name, etc and when a Liquibase job is run, only the specified subset of label-matching changesets will be deployed. This policy check, like other checks, can be configured with a severity level which returns an exit code designed to stop automated jobs, giving your team time to apply this Liquibase best practice.
Note: Contexts and Labels are similar, but the best-practice is to use context for deployment environments and labels more like free-form tags for features, content, release, or other process-centric filter.
Before you begin
Ensure that the
--checks-scopeparameter includes the scope of this check.
Changelog checks prerequisites
Procedure
Enable
This check is enabled by default. To verify that it is currently enabled, run the checks show command:
liquibase checks show --check-name=<string>
To run the check, use the checks run command.
Note: For flow files you'll need to run liquibase flow to apply your changes.
Example output
Short Name | Category | Description | Customization | Status | Severity | Scope | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Changeset | Metadata Content | Requires all changesets specify the LABEL for better organization and deployment targeting, enabling selective deployment groups, and maintaining clearer documentation of feature work or release cycles. | <None> | enabled | 0 | changelog | sql, xml, yaml, json |
Liquibase command 'checks show' was executed successfully.