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Releasing

To initiate a new production deployment:

script/release vX.Y.Z

See script/release --help for more information.

Note:
Every production release will request an approval by the select few people before it can proceed.

What this does is:

  • Builds Linux binaries on Ubuntu;
  • Builds and signs Windows binaries on Windows;
  • Builds, signs, and notarizes macOS binaries on macOS;
  • Uploads all release artifacts to a new GitHub Release;
  • A new git tag vX.Y.Z is created in the remote repository;
  • The changelog is generated from the list of merged pull requests;
  • Updates cli.github.com with the contents of the new release;
  • Updates our Homebrew formula in the homebrew-core repo.

To test out the build system while avoiding creating an actual release:

script/release --staging vX.Y.Z --branch patch-1 -p macos

The build artifacts will be available via gh run download <RUN> -n macos.

General guidelines

  • Features to be released should be reviewed and approved at least one day prior to the release.
  • Feature releases should bump up the minor version number.
  • Breaking releases should bump up the major version number. These should generally be rare.

Test the build system locally

A local release can be created for testing without creating anything official on the release page.

  1. Make sure GoReleaser is installed: brew install goreleaser
  2. script/release --local
  3. Find the built products under dist/.