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Release checklist for 9.12.2-P2

Release Checklist

  • 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)
  • Prepare the sources for tarball generation
  • 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
  • Create a tag (name vX_Y_Z[-alphatag], content BIND 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
  • Ask QA to sanity check the tarball and zips
  • Request the signature on the tarballs
  • Make tarballs and signatures available to download
  • Edit the release https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/tags and the NEWS snippet + links to the tarballs
  • Update DEB and RPM packages

Communication

  • Inform support to upload to the web site (nice to give them a heads-up in advance)

    • Write release e-mail to bind9-announce, bind-users in case of a major release

  • Inform marketing to announce the release

Edited by Vicky Risk