BIND 9.13.4 Release Checklist
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)
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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
Support
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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 - Update tickets in case of waiting support customers
Marketing
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Inform marketing to announce the release - Post short note to Twitter - Update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND (mktg) - Blog post if a major release