Description
Regular releases:
- Bump
.soversion info, document in change log - Bump release version everywhere (including
doc/reference.html) - Fill release date (both change log and man page date)
-
make distchecksource tarballs using./distribute.sh - Build Windows installer using AppVeyor CI – https://ci.appveyor.com/project/libexpat/libexpat/builds/44818755/artifacts
- Build Windows binaries zip file from installer
- SourceForge:
- Upload Windows installer and binaries zip file
- Upload source tarballs +
.ascGPG signature files - Make one new source tarball default download for all but Windows
- Make new binary zip file default download for Windows
- GitHub:
- Create signed Git tag and push it
- Create new release – https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/tag/R_2_4_9
- Upload source tarballs +
.ascGPG signature files - Upload Windows installer and binaries zip file
- Close current milestone and create a follow-up one
- Website
- Add news item – libexpat/libexpat.github.io@075b871
- Sync API documentation – libexpat/libexpat.github.io@468f7ab
- Let the community know:
- Mail Expat distro maintainers directly
- Write to the
xml-devmailing list — http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/202209/msg00035.html - Blog about it at
blog.hartwork.org– https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-4-9-released/ - Blog about it at
xml.com– https://www.xml.com/news/2022-09-expat-249/
- Bump ebuild in Gentoo – gentoo/gentoo@aacaf72
Specific to 2.4.9:
- security aspects
Related downstream issues and pull requests:
- Bundled copies
- poco — Upgrade expat to 2.4.9 pocoproject/poco#3805
- Python — Upgrade our bundled copy of libexpat to the latest (2.4.9?) python/cpython#97005
main— gh-97005: Update libexpat from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 python/cpython#97006- 3.7 — [3.7] gh-97005: Update libexpat from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 (gh-97006) python/cpython#97014
- 3.8 — [3.8] gh-97005: Update libexpat from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 (gh-97006) python/cpython#97013
- 3.9 — [3.9] gh-97005: Update libexpat from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 (gh-97006) python/cpython#97012
- 3.10 — [3.10] gh-97005: Update libexpat from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 (gh-97006) python/cpython#97011
- 3.11 — [3.11] gh-97005: Update libexpat from 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 (gh-97006) python/cpython#97010
- Packaging