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Release Issue Template

go-ipfs X.Y.Z Release

We're happy to announce go-ipfs X.Y.Z, bla bla...

As usual, this release includes important fixes, some of which may be critical for security. Unless the fix addresses a bug being exploited in the wild, the fix will not be called out in the release notes. Please make sure to update ASAP. See our release process for details.

🗺 What's left for release

<List of items with PRs and/or Issues to be considered for this release>

🚢 Estimated shipping date

<Date this release will ship on if everything goes to plan (week beginning...)>

🔦 Highlights

< top highlights for this release notes >

✅ Release Checklist

For each RC published in each stage:

  • version string in version.go has been updated (in the release-vX.Y.Z branch).
  • tag commit with vX.Y.Z-rcN
  • upload to dist.ipfs.io
    1. Build: https://github.com/ipfs/distributions#usage.
    2. Pin the resulting release.
    3. Make a PR against ipfs/distributions with the updated versions, including the new hash in the PR comment.
    4. Ask the infra team to update the DNSLink record for dist.ipfs.io to point to the new distribution.
  • cut a pre-release on github and upload the result of the ipfs/distributions build in the previous step.
  • Announce the RC:
    • On Matrix (both #ipfs and #ipfs-dev)
    • To the early testers listed in docs/EARLY_TESTERS.md. Do this by copy/pasting their GitHub usernames and checkboxes as a comment so they get a GitHub notification. (example)

Checklist:

  • Stage 0 - Automated Testing
    • Upgrade to the latest patch release of Go that CircleCI has published
    • Fork a new branch (release-vX.Y.Z) from master and make any further release related changes to this branch. If any "non-trivial" changes (see the footnotes of docs/releases.md for a definition) get added to the release, uncheck all the checkboxes and return to this stage.
      • Follow the RC release process to cut the first RC.
      • Bump the version in version.go in the master branch to vX.(Y+1).0-dev.
    • Automated Testing (already tested in CI) - Ensure that all tests are passing, this includes:
  • Stage 1 - Internal Testing
    • CHANGELOG.md has been updated
    • Infrastructure Testing:
      • Deploy new version to a subset of Bootstrappers
      • Deploy new version to a subset of Gateways
      • Deploy new version to a subset of Preload nodes
      • Collect metrics every day. Work with the Infrastructure team to learn of any hiccup
    • IPFS Application Testing - Run the tests of the following applications:
  • Stage 2 - Community Prod Testing
  • Stage 3 - Release
    • Final preparation
      • Verify that version string in version.go has been updated.
      • Merge release-vX.Y.Z into the release branch.
      • Tag this merge commit (on the release branch) with vX.Y.Z.
      • Release published
        • to dist.ipfs.io
        • to npm-go-ipfs
        • to chocolatey
        • to snap
        • to github
          • use the artifacts built in CI for dist.ipfs.io: wget "https://ipfs.io/api/v0/get?arg=/ipns/dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/$(curl -s https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/versions | tail -n 1)"
        • to arch (flag it out of date)
      • Cut a new ipfs-desktop release
    • Submit this form to publish a blog post, linking to the GitHub release notes
    • Broadcasting (link to blog post)
  • Post-Release
    • Merge the release branch back into master, ignoring the changes to version.go (keep the -dev version from master).
    • Create an issue using this release issue template for the next release.
    • Make sure any last-minute changelog updates from the blog post make it back into the CHANGELOG.
    • Mark PR draft created for IPFS Desktop as ready for review.

⁉️ Do you have questions?

The best place to ask your questions about IPFS, how it works and what you can do with it is at discuss.ipfs.io. We are also available at the #ipfs channel on Freenode, which is also accessible through our Matrix bridge.

Release improvements for next time

< Add any release improvements that were observed this cycle here so they can get incorporated into future releases. >

Items for a separate comment

< Do these as a separate comment to avoid the main issue from getting too large and checkbox updates taking too long. >

Changelog

< changelog generated by bin/mkreleaselog >

❤️ Contributors

< list generated by bin/mkreleaselog >

Would you like to contribute to the IPFS project and don't know how? Well, there are a few places you can get started: