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BIND 9.13.5 Release

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 "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). (I would love a blog from Witold on the networking refactoring, but I don't have it and can't make it up)
Edited by Mark Andrews