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warewulf/RELEASE.md
Jonathon Anderson 4a246e1b72 Release v4.6.1
- Back-port previous GitHub release notes to `.github/releases/`
- Fix SUSE and Rocky Linux 8 builds

Signed-off-by: Jonathon Anderson <janderson@ciq.com>
2025-04-04 05:12:57 -06:00

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# Release procedure
Major versions (e.g., v4.6.0) are tagged directly on the main branch. Minor
versions (e.g., v4.6.1) are tagged on a separate release branch.
1. Update `CHANGELOG.md`.
- Identify the release date by changing "unreleased" to a date with
`%Y-%m-%d` format, following existing convention in the log.
- Do any final clean-up. (e.g., remove redundancy, add issue or PR numbers,
add missing changes)
git log --graph --oneline --decorate origin/main origin/v4.6.x
2. Update `userdocs` references that imply the latest release to refer to the
new version.
- `contents/installation.rst`
- `contributing/development-environment-vagrant.rst`
- `quickstart/debian12.rst`
- `quickstart/el.rst`
3. Add full release notes to `userdocs/release/` and update
`userdocs/index.rst`.
4. Add summarized release notes to `.github/releases/`.
5. Cherry-pick updates from 1 and 2 above to a release branch if necessary.
(i.e., when not doing a new major release)
git cherry-pick -x -m1 --signoff
6. Create a signed tag for the release of the format v4.MINOR.PATCH, following
the format specified in <MAINTAINING.md>.
git tag --sign v4.6.1; git push origin v4.6.1
7. Monitor the release action associated with the pushed tag at
https://github.com/warewulf/warewulf/actions, and verify the generated draft
release contains the expected artifacts. This includes the source tarball and
RPMs for Suse and Rocky Linux.
8. Update the release notes for the release with the summary in
`.github/releases/`.
9. Confirm the correct values for the pre-release and latest release flags.
10. Publish the release.
11. Announce the release as a [post][1] to [warewulf.org/news][2], linking to
the GitHub release.
12. Announce the release on the Warewulf Slack, linking to the
[warewulf.org/news][2] post.
[1]: https://github.com/warewulf/warewulf.org/tree/main/src/posts
[2]: https://warewulf.org/news