icinga2/RELEASE.md

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# Release Workflow
Specify the release version.
```
VERSION=2.7.1
```
## Issues
Check issues at https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2
## Backport Commits
For minor versions you need to manually backports any and all commits from the
master branch which should be part of this release.
## Authors
Update the [.mailmap](.mailmap) and [AUTHORS](AUTHORS) files:
```
git checkout master
git log --use-mailmap | grep ^Author: | cut -f2- -d' ' | sort | uniq > AUTHORS
```
## Version
Fetch the latest spec file from the [icinga-packaging](https://github.com/icinga/icinga-packaging)
repository and verify that the latest version is set.
```
wget -O icinga2.spec https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Icinga/icinga-packaging/rpm/snapshot/icinga2/icinga2.spec
gsed -i "s/Version: .*/Version: $VERSION/g" icinga2.spec
```
## Changelog
Update the [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) file.
Export these environment variables:
```
export ICINGA_GITHUB_AUTH_USERNAME='user'
export ICINGA_GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN='token'
export ICINGA_GITHUB_PROJECT='icinga/icinga2'
```
Run the script which updates the [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) file.
```
./changelog.py
git diff
```
## Git Tag
Commit these changes to the "master" branch:
```
git commit -v -a -m "Release version $VERSION"
```
For minor releases: Cherry-pick this commit into the "support" branch.
Create a signed tag (tags/v<VERSION>) on the "master" branch (for major
releases) or the "support" branch (for minor releases).
GB:
```
git tag -u EE8E0720 -m "Version $VERSION" v$VERSION
```
MF:
```
git tag -u D14A1F16 -m "Version $VERSION" v$VERSION
```
Push the tag.
```
git push --tags
```
For major releases: Create a new "support" branch:
```
git checkout master
git checkout -b support/2.7
git push -u origin support/2.7
```
For minor releases: Push the support branch, cherry-pick the release commit
into master and merge the support branch:
```
git push -u origin support/2.7
git checkout master
git cherry-pick support/2.7
git merge --strategy=ours support/2.7
git push origin master
```
# External Dependencies
## Build Server
* Verify package build changes for this version.
* Test the snapshot packages for all distributions beforehand.
* Build the newly created Git tag for Debian/RHEL/SuSE.
* Build the newly created Git tag for Windows.
## Release Tests
* Test DB IDO with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
* Provision the vagrant boxes and test the release packages.
* Test the [setup wizard](https://packages.icinga.com/windows/) inside a Windows VM.
* Start a new docker container and install/run icinga2.
Example for CentOS7:
```
docker run -ti centos:latest bash
yum -y install https://packages.icinga.com/epel/icinga-rpm-release-7-latest.noarch.rpm
yum -y install icinga2
icinga2 daemon -C
```
## GitHub Release
Create a new release for the newly created Git tag.
https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/releases
## Chocolatey
Navigate to the git repository on your Windows box which
already has chocolatey installed. Pull/checkout the release.
Create the nupkg package:
```
cpack
```
Install the created icinga2 package locally:
```
choco install icinga2 -version 2.7.0 -fdv "%cd%" -source "'%cd%;https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/'"
```
Upload the package to [chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/packages/upload).
## Online Documentation
Edit `config.yml` in the [icinga-docs-tools](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-docs-tools) repository:
```
git clone git@github.com:Icinga/icinga-docs-tools.git
cd icinga-docs-tools/
vim config.yml
git commit -av -m "Update to Icinga 2 v$VERSION"
git push
```
SSH into the web VM and build the docs:
```
cd /var/www/docs/icinga-docs/latest/
/usr/bin/bundle exec ./build-docs.rb
```
## Announcement
* Create a new blog post on www.icinga.com/blog
* Social media: [Twitter](https://twitter.com/icinga), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/icinga), [G+](https://plus.google.com/+icinga), [Xing](https://www.xing.com/communities/groups/icinga-da4b-1060043), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Icinga-1921830/about)
* Update IRC channel topic
# After the release
* Add new minor version on [GitHub](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/milestones).
* Close the released version on [GitHub](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/milestones).