Release 6.0.0
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Johan Andrén commented
Release Alpakka 6.0.0
Cutting the release
- Check that open PRs and issues assigned to the milestone are reasonable
- Update the Change date and version in the LICENSE file.
- Check readiness levels in
/project/project-info.conf
, and put in the release date for any new modules. - Create a new milestone for the next version
- Close the 6.0.0 milestone
- Make sure all important PRs have been merged
- Update the revision in Fossa in the Akka Group for the Akka umbrella version, e.g.
22.10
. Note that the revisions for the release is udpated by Akka Group > Projects > Edit. For recent dependency updates the Fossa validation can be triggered from the GitHub actions "Dependency License Scanning". - Wait until main build finished after merging the latest PR
- Update the draft release with the next tag version
v6.0.0
, title and release description. Use thePublish release
button, which will create the tag. - Check that GitHub Actions release build has executed successfully (GitHub Actions will start a CI build for the new tag and publish artifacts to Maven central via Sonatype)
Check availability
- Check API documentation
- Check reference documentation. Check that the reference docs were deployed and show a version warning (see section below on how to fix the version warning).
- Check the release on Maven central
When everything is on maven central
- Log into
gustav.akka.io
asakkarepo
- If this updates the
current
version, run./update-alpakka-current-version.sh 6.0.0
- otherwise check changes and commit the new version to the local git repository
cd ~/www git status git add docs/alpakka/current docs/alpakka/6.0.0 git add api/alpakka/current api/alpakka/6.0.0 git commit -m "Alpakka 6.0.0"
- If this updates the
Announcements
For important patch releases, and only if critical issues have been fixed:
- Send a release notification to Lightbend discuss
- Tweet using the @akkateam account (or ask someone to) about the new release
- Announce on Gitter akka/akka
- Announce internally (with links to Tweet, discuss)
For minor or major releases:
- Include noteworthy features and improvements in Akka umbrella release announcement at akka.io. Coordinate with PM and marketing.
Afterwards
- If Cassandra has relevant changes, create/update PR in Akka Persistence Cassandra to upgrade to 6.0.0
- Update version for Lightbend Supported Modules in private project
- Update akka-dependencies bom
- Create an issue or PR to upgrade projects in Alpakka Samples
- Close this issue