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Tom Krizek 9b944eb8a5 Add release metadata update to release checklist 
The release engineering automation we have relies on up-to-date
information about our upcoming release plans. Ensure these are updated
at the end of each release cycle.
2023-03-03 10:11:16 +01:00

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Release Schedule

Code Freeze:

Tagging Deadline:

Public Release:

Documentation Review Links

Closed issues assigned to the milestone without a release note:

Merge requests merged into the milestone without a release note:

Merge requests merged into the milestone without a CHANGES entry:

Release Checklist

Before the Code Freeze

  • (QA) Inform Support and Marketing of impending release (and give estimated release dates).
  • (QA) Ensure there are no permanent test failures on any platform.
  • (QA) Check Perflab to ensure there has been no unexplained drop in performance for the versions being released.
  • (QA) Check whether all issues assigned to the release milestone are resolved1 .
  • (QA) Ensure that there are no outstanding merge requests in the private repository1 (Subscription Edition only).
  • (QA) Ensure all merge requests marked for backporting have been indeed backported.
  • (QA) Announce (on Mattermost) that the code freeze is in effect.

Before the Tagging Deadline

  • (QA) Ensure release notes are correct, ask Support and Marketing to check them as well.
  • (QA) Add a release marker to CHANGES.
  • (QA) Add a release marker to CHANGES.SE (Subscription Edition only).
  • (QA) Update BIND 9 version in configure.ac (9.18+) or version (9.16).
  • (QA) Rebuild configure using Autoconf on docs.isc.org (9.16).
  • (QA) Update GitLab settings for all maintained branches to disallow merging to them.
  • (QA) Tag the releases in the private repository (git tag -s -m "BIND 9.x.y" v9_x_y).

Before the ASN Deadline (for ASN Releases) or the Public Release Date (for Regular Releases)

  • (QA) Check that the formatting is correct for HTML and PDF versions of release notes.
  • (QA) Check that the formatting of the generated man pages is correct.
  • (QA) Verify GitLab CI results for the tags created and sign off on the releases to be published.
  • (QA) Update GitLab settings for all maintained branches to allow merging to them again.
  • (QA) Prepare and merge MRs resetting the release notes and updating the version string for each maintained branch.
  • (QA) Announce (on Mattermost) that the code freeze is over.
  • (QA) Request signatures for the tarballs, providing their location and checksums.
  • (Signers) Ensure that the contents of tarballs and tags are identical.
  • (Signers) Validate tarball checksums, sign tarballs, and upload signatures.
  • (QA) Verify tarball signatures and check tarball checksums again.
  • (Support) Pre-publish ASN and/or Subscription Edition tarballs so that packages can be built.
  • (QA) Build and test ASN and/or Subscription Edition packages.
  • (QA) Prepare the patches/ subdirectory for each security release (if applicable).
  • (QA) Notify Support that the releases have been prepared.
  • (Support) Send out ASNs (if applicable).

On the Day of Public Release

  • (Support) Wait for clearance from Security Officer to proceed with the public release (if applicable).
  • (Support) Place tarballs in public location on FTP site.
  • (Support) Publish links to downloads on ISC website.
  • (Support) Write release email to bind-announce.
  • (Support) Write email to bind-users (if a major release).
  • (Support) Send eligible customers updated links to the Subscription Edition (update the -S edition delivery tickets, even if those links were provided earlier via an ASN ticket).
  • (Support) Update tickets in case of waiting support customers.
  • (QA) Build and test any outstanding private packages.
  • (QA) Build public RPMs.
  • (SwEng) Build Debian/Ubuntu packages.
  • (SwEng) Update Docker images.
  • (QA) Inform Marketing of the release.
  • (Marketing) Post short note to Twitter.
  • (Marketing) Update Wikipedia entry for BIND.
  • (Marketing) Write blog article (if a major release).
  • (QA) Ensure all new tags are annotated and signed.
  • (QA) Push tags for the published releases to the public repository.
  • (QA) Merge published release tags (non-linearly) back into the their relevant development/maintenance branches.
  • (QA) Sanitize confidential issues which are assigned to the current release milestone and do not describe a security vulnerability, then make them public.
  • (QA) Sanitize confidential issues which are assigned to older release milestones and describe security vulnerabilities, then make them public if appropriate2 .
  • (QA) Update QA tools used in GitLab CI (e.g. Black, PyLint, Sphinx) by modifying the relevant Dockerfile.
  • (QA) Run a pipeline to rebuild all images used in GitLab CI.
  • (QA) Update metadata.json with the upcoming release information.

  1. If not, use the time remaining until the tagging deadline to ensure all outstanding issues are either resolved or moved to a different milestone. ↩︎

  2. As a rule of thumb, security vulnerabilities which have reproducers merged to the public repository are considered okay for full disclosure. ↩︎

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