= Checklist of things to do before a release

== Preparing a minor release 1.x.y

=== 2 weeks before

Announce a string freeze on Trac-dev, so that the translators can catch up with the last changes.

Update the TracDev/ReleaseTesting page, ask for testers.

=== 1 week before

Prepare the rc1 packages according to the procedure described below in [#Releasesteps Release steps], test and upload them.

Testing period. Only critical or no risk fixes.


== Preparing a major release 1.x ==

=== 1 month before

Announce a beta1 / string freeze on Trac-dev.

=== 2 weeks before

Prepare the rc1 packages.

Testing period. Only critical or no risk fixes.


== Release steps 

=== Check the t.e.o wiki
 * Update the ChangeLog page 
 * Verify TracInstall and TracUpgrade
 * For major releases:
   * check TracDev/ReleaseNotes, go through the tickets which have an empty //Release Notes// field and say a word there
   * check TracDev/ApiChanges

=== Check the source
(replace ''trunk'' below with the corresponding branches/X-stable when preparing a minor releases)


==== Wiki related files
 * Verify that TracStandalone#Reference matches current `tracd --help`
 * If needed, do a last [TracProject/DefaultWikiPages#sync sync]
 * Check all default wikipages for TracLinks to non existing pages/resources
 * Verify that [source:trunk/trac/wiki/default-pages]
   contains all pages listed in TracProject/DefaultWikiPages
 * Update [source:trunk/RELEASE] from wiki ChangeLog
 * Update [source:trunk/ChangeLog] from wiki ChangeLog with release date (e.g. r11678)
 * Update [source:trunk/INSTALL] from wiki TracInstall 
 * Update [source:trunk/UPGRADE] from wiki TracUpgrade

==== Other repository files
 * Import the translations from Transifex [wiki:TracL10N/Transifex#group3 that have no committers]
 * Check the [source:trunk/THANKS] file
 * Update version number in [source:trunk/setup.py], 
   [source:trunk/trac/wiki/default-pages/WikiStart], 
   [source:trunk/doc/conf.py],
   and [source:trunk/trac/__init__.py]
 * Check whether the jQuery and jQuery UI version numbers mentioned in the help match the actual ones (see for example r11041) 
 * Comment out `tag_build` and `tag_svn_revision` settings in
   [source:trunk/setup.cfg]

=== Create dist packages

// Note: be sure to use Python 2.7 on Windows //

   * Check out trunk (or the release branch) to a '''clean''' sandbox
   * Build source archives on Unix:
     {{{
     python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip
     }}}
     in order to get the files in `.tar.gz` and `zip` archives, with the proper LF line endings.
   
   **The `sdist` command must be performed from a svn < 1.7 checkout**, as 
   only the data files also listed in the `.svn/entries` files are considered
  (that is, until [https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/252 distribute issue252] gets fixed) 
   * Build Windows installers on x86 and x64 platforms
     - .exe installer
       {{{
       python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst
       }}}
    TODO: Evaluate using `--user-access-control` [https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/builtdist.html#vista-user-access-control-uac option] -> "auto" doesn't help and "force" is annoying, as it will always ask for privilege escalation even if not actually needed; Instead, use Python 2.7.9, which creates installers which will simply warn that (manual) privilege escalation is needed, when it's needed (cf. Python-Issue:16561)
   * Test installation on all target platforms. \\
     Install on a clean system. ''Remove any old Trac installation before testing.''
   * Smoke test:
     - create an environment with `trac-admin`, test it with `tracd`
     - upgrade an environment created with the previous release' `trac-admin`,
       test it with `tracd`

=== Finalize the release
 * Tag/copy version in subversion
 * Upload to http://ftp.edgewall.org/pub/trac
 * Update TracDownload and [wiki:TracDev/ReleaseNotes/1.1#DevelopmentReleases]
 * Test `easy_install Trac`
 * //Update [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Trac PyPi entry] (*)//
 * Post on Trac-users, Trac-dev (all releases) 
   and Trac-announce, [https://twitter.com/TracProject #TracProject], [gforum:comp.lang.python.announce Python-announce] (only for non-beta releases)
 * //Close release coordination ticket (e.g. #9077) (*)//
 * Mark the finished milestones as //completed// (with the //completed date// preferably being the date that the releases were announced), and change their descriptions from //next// maintenance/development release to //latest// maintenance/development release.
   * The next set of milestones should have their descriptions changed to //next// maintenance/development release.
   * Attach copy of translations statistics chart of Transifex to the milestones.
 * Add [/admin/ticket/versions Version] entries for the new releases (*)
 * Update the //version// displayed in the #trac IRC //channel entry message// (*)
 {{{
 /msg ChanServ set #trac entrymsg "The topic is: http://trac.edgewall.org/ | http://trac-hacks.org/ | Latest version - <version>."
}}}

//(*) not for beta or rc releases//

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See also: TracDev