docs/RELEASE.md

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   2 title: Steps to a Successful Release
   3 category: Contributing
   4 layout: default
   5 SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
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   8 # Steps to a Successful Release
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  10 1. Add all items to NEWS
  11 2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (`meson compile -C build git-contrib`)
  12 3. Update the time and place in NEWS
  13 4. Update hwb (`meson compile -C build update-hwdb update-hwdb-autosuspend`)
  14 5. [RC1] Update version and library numbers in `meson.build`
  15 6. Check dbus docs with `meson compile -C build update-dbus-docs`
  16 7. Tag the release: `version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"`
  17 8. Do `meson compile -C build`
  18 9. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version`
  19 10. Upload the documentation: `meson compile -C build doc-sync`
  20 11. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
  21 12. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate.
  22 13. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically.
  23 14. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released`)
  24 15. [FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable origin/master:master origin/master:refs/heads/${version}-stable`, and change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches).