Release Checklist for BIND 9.11.11, BIND 9.11.11-S1, BIND 9.14.6, BIND 9.15.4

Release Schedule

Tagging Deadline: Monday, September 10th, 2019

Public Release: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019

Release Checklist

• (Manager) Check for the presence of a milestone for the release:

  • If there is a milestone, are all the issues for the milestone resolved? (other than this checklist).

• (Manager) Inform Support/Marketing of impending release (and give estimated release dates).

• (SwEng) Prepare the sources for tarball generation:

  • Check perflab to ensure there has been no unexplained drop in performance for the version being released.
  • Ensure that there are no outstanding merge requests in the private repository (subscription version only).
  • Update API files for libraries with new version information.
  • Change software version and library versions in configure.in (new major release only).
  • Rebuild configure using autoconf on docs.isc.org.
  • Update CHANGES.
  • Update CHANGES.SE (subscription branch only).
  • Update "version".
  • Update "readme.md".
  • Check the release notes are correct:
    • Compare content with merge requests for the release.
    • Check formatting.
  • Build documentation on docs.isc.org.
  • Commit changes and make sure the gitlab-ci tests are passing.
  • Push the changes and tag ("alphatag" is an optional string such as "b1", "rc1" etc.). (git tag -u <DEVELOPER_KEYID> -a -s -m "BIND 9.X.Y[alphatag]" v9_X_Y[alphatag])
  • If this is the first tag for a release (e.g. beta), create a release branch named release_v9_X_Y (this allows development to continue on the release branch whilst release engineering continues).

• (SwEng) Run the "make release" Jenkins job to produce the tarballs and zips.

• (SwEng) Ask QA to sanity check the tarball and zips (passing to them the number of the Jenkins job).

• (QA) Sanity check the tarballs.

• (QA) Request the signature on the tarballs.

• (QA) Check signatures on tarballs.

• (QA) Tell Support to handle notification of release.

• (Manager) Inform Marketing of the release

• (Manager) Update the internal BIND release dates wiki page when public announcement has been made.

• (SwEng) Update DEB and RPM packages

• (SwEng) Merge the automatically prepared prep 9.X.Y commit which updates version and documentation on the release branch into the relevant maintenance branch (v9_X)

Support

• Make tarballs and signatures available to download.
• Write release email to bind9-announce.
• Write email to bind9-users (if a major release).
• Update tickets in case of waiting support customers.

Marketing

• Post short note to Twitter.
• Update Wikipedia entry for BIND.
• Write blog article (if a major release).