RELEASE

fwupd Release Notes

Forking stable branch:

When forking main into a stable 1_7_X, be sure to disable the following CI jobs:
 * publish-docs
 * publish-stable

To make sure it's done right, you can reference commit 433e809318c68c9ab6d4ae50ee9c4312503185d8

Write release entries:

git log --format="%s" --cherry-pick --right-only 1.8.4... | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge | sort | uniq
Add any user visible changes into ../data/org.freedesktop.fwupd.metainfo.xml
appstream-util appdata-to-news ../data/org.freedesktop.fwupd.metainfo.xml > NEWS

Update translations:

ninja-build fwupd-pot
tx push --source
tx pull --all --force --minimum-perc=5
ninja-build fix-translations
git add ../po/*.po

2. Commit changes to git:

# MAKE SURE THIS IS CORRECT
export release_ver="1.8.5"

git commit -a -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}" --no-verify
git tag -s -f -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}" "${release_ver}"
<wait>
git push --tags
git push

3. Generate the tarball:

ninja dist

3a. Generate the additional verification metadata

gpg -b -a meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz

4. Upload tarball:

scp meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.* hughsient@people.freedesktop.org:~/public_html/releases

5. Do post release version bump in meson.build

6. Commit changes:

git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump" --no-verify
git push

7. Update flatpak package for new release:

https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.fwupd

8. Promote snap package from edge to stable:

https://snapcraft.io/fwupd/releases
or

snapcraft promote fwupd --from-channel edge --to-channel stable