BIND 9.11.4 Release
- Prepare the sources for tarball generation
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Change software version and library versions in
configure.in
- Update CHANGES
- Ensure the release notes are correct for this release
- Ensure the metainformation is correct for this release
- Make sure the tests are passing
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Create a tag (name
vX_Y_Z[-alphatag]
, contentBIND X.Y.Z[-alphatag]
, signed with a developer's GPG key):git tag -u <DEVELOPER_KEYID> -a -s -m "BIND X.Y.Z" vX.Y.Z
- Push the changes and tag
- Create the tarball
- Create the Windows zips
- Have QA sanity check the tarball and zips
- Request the signature on the tarballs
- Make tarballs and signatures available to download
- Communication
- Edit the release https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/tags and the NEWS snippet + links to the tarballs
- Update the website(?), public release notes(?)
- Write release e-mail to bind9-announce
- Post short note to Twitter
- Update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND
- Update DEB and RPM packages