Releasing

Pre-release steps

Switch or create the release branch for this feature release (e.g. releases/5.12.x)
Change version, platformVersion, and vintageVersion in gradle.properties to the versions about to be released
Change release date in Release Notes
Change release date in README.MD
Commit with message "Release ${VERSION}"
Execute ./gradlew --no-build-cache --no-configuration-cache clean build publish closeSonatypeStagingRepository
Tag current commit: git tag -s -m ${VERSION} r${VERSION}
Change version, platformVersion, and vintageVersion properties in gradle.properties on release branch to new development versions and commit with message "Back to snapshots for further development" or similar
Push release branch and tag to GitHub: git push --set-upstream --follow-tags origin HEAD
Trigger a release build: gh workflow run --ref r${VERSION} -f releaseVersion=${VERSION} -f stagingRepoId=orgjunit-1234 release.yml
- Select the release branch
- Enter the version to be released
- Enter the staging repository ID from the output of above Gradle build

Fast-forward merge the release branch to main and push to GitHub
Update the security policy and commit with message "Update security policy to reflect 5.x release" or similar
Create release notes for the next feature release from the template
Update JBang catalog

Cherry-pick the tagged commit from the release branch to main and resolve the conflict in gradle.properties by choosing the version of the main branch
Include the release notes of the patch release on main if not already present
Update JBang catalog