icinga2/RELEASE.md

Release Workflow

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Issues

Check the following issue filters:

• Pending backports
• Valid target version

Authors

Update the .mailmap and AUTHORS files:

$ git log --use-mailmap | grep ^Author: | cut -f2- -d' ' | sort | uniq > AUTHORS

Version

Update the version number in the following files:

• [icinga2.nuspec]: (.*)

Changelog

Update the ChangeLog, doc/1-about.md files using the changelog.py script. Also generate HTML for the wordpress release announcement.

Changelog:

$ ./changelog.py --version 2.4.0 --project i2

Docs:

$ ./changelog.py --version 2.4.0 --project i2 --links

Wordpress:

$ ./changelog.py --version 2.4.0 --project i2 --html --links

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) 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/2.4
$ git push -u origin support/2.4

For minor releases: Push the support branch, cherry-pick the release commit into master and merge the support branch:

$ git push -u origin support/2.4
$ git checkout master
$ git cherry-pick support/2.4
$ git merge --strategy=ours support/2.4
$ git push origin master

External Dependencies

Build Server

• Update Git tags for the release jobs.

Linux

• Build the newly created Git tag for Debian/RHEL/SuSE.
• Provision the vagrant boxes and test the release packages.
• Start a new docker container and install/run icinga2

Example for CentOS7:

$ sudo docker run -ti centos:latest bash

# yum -y install http://packages.icinga.org/epel/7/release/noarch/icinga-rpm-release-7-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
# yum -y install icinga2
# icinga2 daemon -C

# systemctl start icinga2
# tail -f /var/log/icinga2/icinga2.log

Windows

• Build the newly created Git tag for Windows.
• Test the setup wizard inside a Windows VM.

GitHub Release

Create a new release for the newly created Git tag. https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2/releases

Online Documentation

SSH into the web box, navigate into icinga2-latest/module/icinga2 and pull the current icinga2 revision to update what's new".

Announcement

• Create a new blog post on www.icinga.org/blog
• Send announcement mail to icinga-announce@lists.icinga.org
• Social media: Twitter, Facebook, G+, Xing, LinkedIn
• Update IRC channel topic

After the release

• Add new minor version
• Update Redmine filters for the next major/minor version