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diff --git a/docs/RELEASE.md b/docs/RELEASE.md index df04cb4..f299c62 100644 --- a/docs/RELEASE.md +++ b/docs/RELEASE.md @@ -12,17 +12,19 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later 3. Update the time and place in NEWS 4. Update hwdb (`ninja -C build update-hwdb`, `ninja -C build update-hwdb-autosuspend`, commit separately). 5. Update syscall numbers (`ninja -C build update-syscall-tables update-syscall-header`). -6. [RC1] Update version and library numbers in `meson.build` -7. Check dbus docs with `ninja -C build update-dbus-docs` -8. Update translation strings (`cd build`, `meson compile systemd-pot`, `meson compile systemd-update-po`) - drop the header comments from `systemd.pot` + re-add SPDX before committing. If the only change in a file is the 'POT-Creation-Date' field, then ignore that file. -9. Tag the release: `version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"` -10. Do `ninja -C build` -11. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version` -12. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones) -13. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate. -14. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically. -15. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released | Online resources https://systemd.io/`) -16. Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable --atomic origin/main:main origin/main:refs/heads/${version}-stable`. -17. Build and upload the documentation (on the -stable branch): `ninja -C build doc-sync` -18. [FINAL] Change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches). -19. [FINAL] Change the Github Pages branch in the stable repository to the newly created branch (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/pages) and set the 'Custom domain' to 'systemd.io' +6. [RC1] Update library numbers in `meson.build` +7. Update version number in `meson.version` (e.g. from `256~devel` to `256~rc1` or from `256~rc3` to `256`). Note that this uses a tilde (\~) instead of a hyphen (-) because tildes sort lower in version comparisons according to the [version format specification](https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/version_format_specification/), and we want `255~rc1` to sort lower than `255`. +8. Check dbus docs with `ninja -C build update-dbus-docs` +9. Update translation strings (`ninja -C build systemd-pot`, `ninja -C build systemd-update-po`) - drop the header comments from `systemd.pot` + re-add SPDX before committing. If the only change in a file is the 'POT-Creation-Date' field, then ignore that file. +10. Tag the release: `version="v$(sed 's/~/-/g' meson.version)" && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"` (tildes are replaced with hyphens, because git doesn't accept the former). +11. Do `ninja -C build` +12. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version` +13. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones) +14. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate. +15. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically. +16. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released | Online resources https://systemd.io/`) +17. [FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable --atomic origin/main:main origin/main:refs/heads/${version}-stable`. +18. [FINAL] Build and upload the documentation (on the -stable branch): `ninja -C build doc-sync` +19. [FINAL] Change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches). +20. [FINAL] Change the Github Pages branch in the stable repository to the newly created branch (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/pages) and set the 'Custom domain' to 'systemd.io' +21. [FINAL] Update version number in `meson.version` to the devel version of the next release (e.g. from `v256` to `v257~devel`) |