Release checklist for 9.12.2-P2
Release Checklist
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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
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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
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Inform marketing to announce the release
- Post short note to Twitter
- Update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND
- Blog post if a major release