- Create a new github milestone to keep track of all the issues being fixed for a specific release. e.g. M1, alpha, beta, rc1.
- Milestone should be closed when released.
- Following command can be used to update identity components authenticators and few other components.
mvn versions:update-properties -DgenerateBackupPoms=false -Dincludes=org.wso2.carbon.identity.*,org.wso2.carbon.extension.identity.*,org.wso2.charon,org.apache.rampart.wso2,org.apache.ws.security.wso2,org.wso2.carbon.consent.*,org.wso2.carbon.database.utils -U
- Need to update charon , balana, rampart, wss4j and sso-agent seperately.
- Also double check CEP, BPS updates as well.
- Create a new release draft on the tag created by a successful Jenkins release.
- Download the distributions from Jenkins and upload them to release draft.
- Publish the release draft.
- Make the public announcement (@architecture + dev).
- All the major features shipped with the target release should be completed by alpha release.
- Make sure there are no issues affecting the target release with type: bug and priority: highest/high states (All L1/L2 issues should be resolved).
- Complete the security scan reports (Veracode and Qualys) and get the approval from security team.
- Update the release_note.html, README.txt and other files inside the product distribution to the latest versions.
- Release version should be the final GA release version
- Development version should be the same as earlier releases
- Custom SCM tag should include the relevant candidate version. E.g. rc1
- Make sure to untick the ‘close Nexus Staging Repository’ option
- If the vote passes for the candidate we can manually close and release the product in Nexus. Else we can drop the candidate.
- Follow the same procedure to publish release of RC on github as other releases.
- Make sure to rename the downloaded pack to rc before uploading to github. E.g. for RC1 release pack should be renamed to -rc1.zip.
- Announce for a vote on the release candidate @architecture+dev.
- Login to nexus and go to staging repositories. https://maven.wso2.org/nexus/#stagingRepositories
- Make sure other unqualified candidates are dropped.
- Find the corresponding qualified RC release candidate. This should be in open state.
- Close it and release the product
- Inform marketing team to carry out public announcements and other post release tasks on the release.
- Add product to product-dist > inform marketing teams.
- Sync product to atuwa > inform infra team.
- Add the features to feature-repo (P2-profile).
- Update the development versions to next iteration version.
- Cloud-formation scripts.
- Public announcement
- Update the release matrix
- Sign the pack
- Posting product on WSO2 site
- Adding product to WUM