Make this post a wiki
Manual updates: 2021-02-03
- Update manual if applicable for any additional installation steps
- Update release notes section in the manual:
- Release notes: bullet point list by category of all changes, include link to bug numbers. You can auto-generate changes using the release notes script.
- CLI release notes are taken from the hammer-cli and hammer-cli-foreman changelogs
- Link to installer changelogs and note versions being used
- Headline features: half a dozen important features with a few sentences description each
- Upgrade notes: all important notices that users must be aware of before upgrading
- Update installer options section using the get-params script (Note: this step can only be done after packages are released)
- Generate the apipie doc and place it in the api/2.4 directory
Preparing code: 2021-02-03
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Make patch releases of installer modules that have important changes
- Branch to MAJ.MIN-stable if recent changes to the module aren’t suitable for patch (x.y.z) release
- Remove/change target version field for any open Redmine tickets assigned to the release still (next minor, unset it or reject)
- Ensure that code in git matches issues fixed in 2.4.0-rc1 in redmine. issues.rb can be used to generate a comparison between the two.
Tagging a release: 2021-02-03
- In foreman 2.4-stable:
- Make sure test_2_4_stable is green
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run
make -C locale tx-update -
Tag the release using tag.sh
tag.sh 2.4.0-rc1 && git push upstream 2.4-stable --follow-tags
- In smart-proxy 2.4-stable:
- Make sure test_proxy_2_4_stable is green
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Tag the release using tag.sh
tag.sh 2.4.0-rc1 && git push upstream 2.4-stable --follow-tags
- In foreman-selinux 2.4-stable:
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Tag the release using tag.sh
tag.sh 2.4.0-rc1 && git push upstream 2.4-stable --follow-tags
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Tag the release using tag.sh
- In foreman-installer 2.4-stable:
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Tag the release using tag.sh
tag.sh 2.4.0-rc1 && git push upstream 2.4-stable --follow-tags
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Tag the release using tag.sh
- Run the Jenkins Tarballs Release to create tarballs
- Update release version similar to here
- Sign Tarballs
Note: If for some reason there was an issue with the tarballs that required uploading new tarballs, CDN cache should be invalidated so that the builders use the updated tarballs.
Packaging a release: 2021-02-03
- Update foreman-packaging
- Trigger release_packages in Jenkins by calling release_packages script.
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Tag
foreman-releaseintoforeman-client-2.4-rhel7andforeman-client-2.4-el8, as this doesn’t happen automatically for those tags. Make sure the build matches the release.-
koji tag-build foreman-client-2.4-rhel7 foreman-release-2.4.0-1.el7 -
koji tag-build foreman-client-2.4-el8 foreman-release-2.4.0-1.el8
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- Sign the RPMs in the release
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Sign RPMs for client repos (call scripts with
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Kick off the release pipeline by calling
release_pipeline -
Kick off the client pipeline by calling
PROJECT=client release_pipeline - Kick off the plugins pipeline by calling plugins_pipeline
After the packages have been released
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Announce the release on Discourse
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Update the topic in #theforeman channel on Freenode
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Share the release announcement on twitter
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Release pipeline will trigger plugins test pipeline, which doesn’t block releases but can be used to understand known issues around plugin compatibility with Foreman 2.4.