go-ipfs is on a six week release schedule. Following a release, there will be five weeks for code of any type (features, bugfixes, etc) to be added. After the five weeks is up, a release canidate is tagged and only important bugfixes will be allowed up to release day.
- before release, tag 'release canidate' for users to test against
- if bugs are found/fixed, do another release canidate
- all tests pass (no exceptions)
- webui works (for most definitions of 'works')
- CHANGELOG.md has been updated
- use
git log --pretty=short vLAST..master
- use
- version string in
repo/config/version.gohas been updated - tag commit with vX.Y.Z
- update release branch to point to release commit
- ensure version is built in gobuilder
- publish next version to https://github.com/ipfs/npm-go-ipfs