Release Checklist

Followed by core developers with accept access to prepare releases.

Things to check:

• Check for queued security patches

• Pull from Heptapod

• Check that the Heptapod CI passed

• Add the release notes in a public changeset
• Run make-release
  • tag
  • sign
  • build release tarballs
  • make the tag public
• Run post-release
  • upload signed release tarball to Pypi with twine
  • upload signed release tarball to mercurial-scm.org
  • update latest.dat file
  • clean-up build
• publish stable branch
• push a merge from stable into the default branch to the CI (hence pushing the release changesets)

• Add Bugzilla version

• WhatsNew updated (releasenotes, changelog or changes script)

• UpgradeNotes updated with any (BC) notes

• For major releases:
  • Create ReleaseX.Y page
  • Add notes for -rc build; replace them when final release is cut

• tag and push PythonHglib if there are new changesets

• Mercurial/NewsItems updated

• Ping mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org (see template below)

• Update Matrix topic
  • For rc releases, be sure to note code freeze if there
• Tweet about it

Packaging message template:

To:     mercurial-packaging@mercurial-scm.org
Subject:        Mercurial x.y tagged

Please update your package builds, thanks.

<describe changes in this release important for packagers to note, if any>

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