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 (e.g., Fedora rawhide):
30 make -C src fs-magic-compare
32 If it finds a new file system magic number, add it to src/stat.c.
33 If it is a remote file system, add the new S_MAGIC_* name you created
34 in stat.c to the list of remote file system types in src/tail.c's
37 * Pre-release testing:
39 Run the following on at least one SELinux-enabled (enforcing) and
40 one non-SELinux system:
42 n=$(( ($(nproc) + 1) / 2 ))
43 sudo env PATH="$PATH" NON_ROOT_USERNAME=$USER make -k -j$(nproc) check-root\
45 && make -j$n check RUN_VERY_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes
47 If testing on systems with a non standard default shell, spurious failures
48 may occur. Often there are other shells available, and you can select
49 those by using for example, SHELL=bash in the commands above.
51 Note that the use of -j$n tells make to use approximately half of the
52 available processing units. If you use -jN, for larger N, some of the
53 expensive tests are likely to interfere with concurrent performance-measuring
54 or timing-sensitive tests, resulting in spurious failures.
56 If "make distcheck" doesn't run "make syntax-check" for you, then run
61 * Set the date, version number, and release type [stable/alpha/beta] on
62 line 3 of NEWS, commit that, and tag the release by running e.g.,
64 build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag X.Y stable
66 * Run the following to create release tarballs. Your choice selects the
67 corresponding upload-to destination in the emitted gnupload command.
68 The different destinations are specified in cfg.mk. See the definitions
69 of gnu_ftp_host-{alpha,beta,stable}.
71 # "TYPE" must be stable, beta or alpha
74 * Test the tarball. copy it to a few odd-ball systems and ensure that
75 it builds and passes all tests.
77 * While that's happening, write the release announcement that you will
78 soon post. Start with the template, $HOME/announce-coreutils-X.Y
79 that was just created by that "make" command.
81 Once all the builds and tests have passed,
83 * Run the gnupload command that was suggested by your "make stable" run above.
85 * Wait a few minutes (maybe up to 30?) and then use the release URLs to
86 download all tarball/signature pairs and use gpg --verify to ensure
87 that they're all valid.
89 * Push the NEWS-updating changes and the new tag:
91 v=$(cat .prev-version)
92 git push origin master tag v$v
94 * Announce it on Savannah first, so you can include the preferable
95 savannah.org announcement link in the email message.
98 https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/
99 click on the "submit news", then write something like the following:
100 (If there is no such button, then enable "News" for the project via
101 the Main -> "Select Features" menu item, or via this link:
102 https://savannah.gnu.org/project/admin/editgroupfeatures.php?group=coreutils)
104 Subject: coreutils-X.Y released [stable]
106 ...paste the announcement here...
109 Then go here to approve it:
110 https://savannah.gnu.org/news/approve.php?group=coreutils
112 * Send the announcement email message.
114 * Approve the announcement here:
115 http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admindb/coreutils-announce
117 * After each non-alpha release, update the on-line manual accessible via
119 http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/
123 build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update