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11.2 Minor release checklist

A “minor release” means an update of y in 2.x.y.

Pre-release

  1. Don’t forget to prepare the GUB build machine by deleting and moving unneeded files: see “Subsequent builds” in Notes on builds with GUB.
  2. Using any system with git pull access (not necessarily the GUB build machine), use the commands below to do the following:

    This requires a system which has the release/unstable branch. If you get a warning saying you are in detached HEAD state, then you should create a release/unstable branch with git checkout release/unstable.

    Check the environment variables are set as in Environment variables.

    You need to ensure you have a clean index and work tree. If the checkout displays modified files, you might want to run git reset --hard before continuing.

     
    git fetch
git checkout release/unstable
git merge origin/master
make -C $LILYPOND_BUILD_DIR po-replace
mv $LILYPOND_BUILD_DIR/po/lilypond.pot po/
gedit Documentation/web/news-new.itexi Documentation/web/news-old.itexi
gedit Documentation/web/news-headlines.itexi
gedit VERSION
gedit ly/Wel*.ly

    Editing the ‘news-headlines.itexi’ file is a bit tricky, since it contains URLs with escaped characters. An example of what is needed is that releasing 2.19.50 after the release of 2.19.49 needed the line:

     
    @uref{news.html#LilyPond-2_002e19_002e49-released-October-16_002c-2016,
  LilyPond 2.19.49 released - @emph{October 16, 2016}}

    to be changed to:

     
    @uref{news.html#LilyPond-2_002e19_002e50-released-November-6_002c-2016,
  LilyPond 2.19.50 released - @emph{November 6, 2016}}

    Don’t forget to update the entry above that line to show the latest release version.

  3. Commit, push, switch back to master (or wherever else):
     
    git commit -m "Release: bump VERSION_DEVEL." VERSION
git commit -m "PO: update template." po/lilypond.pot
git commit -m "Release: update news." Documentation/web/
git commit -m "Release: bump Welcome versions." ly/Wel*.ly
git push origin HEAD:release/unstable
git checkout master
  4. If you do not have the previous release test-output tarball, download it and put it in regtests/
  5. Prepare GUB environment by running:
     
    ### my-gub.sh
# special terminal, and default PATH environment.
# import these special environment vars:
#   HOME, HTTP_PROXY, TERM
env -i \
  HOME=$HOME \
  HTTP_PROXY=$HTTP_PROXY \
  bash --rcfile my-bashrc
     
    ### my-bashrc
export PS1="\[\e[1;33mGUB-ENV \w\]$ \[\e[0m\]"
export PATH=$PATH
export TERM=xterm
  6. Build release on GUB by running:
     
    make LILYPOND_BRANCH=release/unstable lilypond

    or something like:

     
    make LILYPOND_BRANCH=stable/2.16 lilypond
  7. Check the regtest comparison in ‘uploads/webtest/’ for any unintentional breakage. More info in Precompiled regression tests.
  8. If any work was done on GUB since the last release, upload binaries to a temporary location, ask for feedback, and wait a day or two in case there’s any major problems.

    Note: Always do this for a stable release.

Actual release

  1. If you’re not the right user on the webserver, remove the t from the rsync command in:
     
    test-lily/rsync-lily-doc.py
test-lily/rsync-test.py
  2. Upload GUB by running:
     
    make lilypond-upload \
  LILYPOND_REPO_URL=git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git \
  LILYPOND_BRANCH=release/unstable

    or something like:

     
    make lilypond-upload \
  LILYPOND_REPO_URL=git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git \
  LILYPOND_BRANCH=stable/2.12

Post release

  1. Update the current master branch with the current news:
     
    git fetch
git checkout origin/master
git merge origin/release/unstable
  2. Update ‘VERSION’ in lilypond git and upload changes:
     
    gedit VERSION
     
    git commit -m "Release: bump VERSION." VERSION
git push origin HEAD:release/unstable
  3. Create a merge request from release/unstable to merge the changes into master.
  4. Wait a few hours for the website to update.
  5. Email release notice to info-lilypond
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