1 Here are most of the steps we (maintainers) follow when making a release.
3 * start from a clean, up-to-date git directory.
5 git checkout master; git pull
7 * Run ./configure && make maintainer-clean
9 * Ensure that the desired versions of autoconf, automake, bison, etc.
10 are in your PATH. See the buildreq list in bootstrap.conf for
13 * Ensure that you're on "master" with no uncommitted diffs.
14 This should produce no output: git checkout master; git diff
16 * Ensure that you've pushed all changes that belong in the release
17 and that the NixOS/Hydra autobuilder is reporting all is well:
19 http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/coreutils-master
21 * Run bootstrap one last time. This downloads any new translations:
25 FIXME: enable excluded programs like arch? to get their manual pages?
27 * Check for new file system types by running the following command on
28 a system with the most recent kernel possible, or with the latest
29 upstream include/uapi/linux/magic.h made available at src/fs-latest-magic.h
31 make src/fs-magic-compare
33 If it reports new file system magic numbers, add them to src/stat.c.
34 If it is a remote file system, add the new S_MAGIC_* name you created
35 in stat.c to the list of remote file system types in src/tail.c's
38 * Pre-release testing:
40 Run the following on at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and
41 one non-SELinux system:
43 n=$(( ($(nproc) + 1) / 2 ))
44 sudo env PATH="$PATH" NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k -j$(nproc) check-root\
46 && make -j$n check RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes
48 If testing on systems with a non standard default shell, spurious failures
49 may occur. Often there are other shells available, and you can select
50 those by using for example, SHELL=bash in the commands above.
52 Note that the use of -j$n tells make to use approximately half of the
53 available processing units. If you use -jN, for larger N, some of the
54 expensive tests are likely to interfere with concurrent performance-measuring
55 or timing-sensitive tests, resulting in spurious failures.
57 If "make distcheck" doesn't run "make syntax-check" for you, then run
62 * Set the date, version number, and release type [stable/alpha/beta] on
63 line 3 of NEWS, commit that, and tag the release by running e.g.,
65 build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag X.Y stable
67 * Run the following to create release tarballs. Your choice selects the
68 corresponding upload-to destination in the emitted gnupload command.
69 The different destinations are specified in cfg.mk. See the definitions
70 of gnu_ftp_host-{alpha,beta,stable}.
72 # "TYPE" must be stable, beta or alpha
75 * Test the tarball. copy it to a few odd-ball systems and ensure that
76 it builds and passes all tests.
78 * While that's happening, write the release announcement that you will
79 soon post. Start with the template, $HOME/announce-coreutils-X.Y
80 that was just created by that "make" command.
82 Once all the builds and tests have passed,
84 * Run the gnupload command that was suggested by your "make stable" run above.
86 * Wait a few minutes (maybe up to 30?) and then use the release URLs to
87 download all tarball/signature pairs and use gpg --verify to ensure
88 that they're all valid.
90 * Push the NEWS-updating changes and the new tag:
92 v=$(cat .prev-version)
93 git push origin master tag v$v
95 * Announce it on Savannah first, so you can include the preferable
96 savannah.org announcement link in the email message.
99 https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/
100 click on the "submit news", then write something like the following:
101 (If there is no such button, then enable "News" for the project via
102 the Main -> "Select Features" menu item, or via this link:
103 https://savannah.gnu.org/project/admin/editgroupfeatures.php?group=coreutils)
105 Subject: coreutils-X.Y released [stable]
107 ...paste the announcement here...
110 Then go here to approve it:
111 https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=coreutils
113 * Send the announcement email message.
115 * Approve the announcement here:
116 http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admindb/coreutils-announce
118 * After each non-alpha release, update the on-line manual accessible via
120 http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/
124 build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update