rclone/RELEASE.md
Nick Craig-Wood 1ce0b45965 build: Stop tagged releases making a current beta - fixes #4789
Before this change stable releases updated the current beta which mean
confusingly the current beta release would jump backwards from
1.54.0-beta to 1.53.3-beta say.

This commit stops any tagged build making a current beta release. They
will still make beta releases, they just won't update the
rclone*current*.zip and version.txt files.

This also means that a .0 release will not make a current beta like it
does at the moment.
2020-11-25 09:48:29 +00:00

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# Release
This file describes how to make the various kinds of releases
## Extra required software for making a release
* [github-release](https://github.com/aktau/github-release) for uploading packages
* pandoc for making the html and man pages
## Making a release
* git checkout master # see below for stable branch
* git pull
* git status - make sure everything is checked in
* Check GitHub actions build for master is Green
* make test # see integration test server or run locally
* make tag
* edit docs/content/changelog.md # make sure to remove duplicate logs from point releases
* make tidy
* make doc
* git status - to check for new man pages - git add them
* git commit -a -v -m "Version v1.XX.0"
* make retag
* git push --follow-tags origin
* # Wait for the GitHub builds to complete then...
* make fetch_binaries
* make tarball
* make vendorball
* make sign_upload
* make check_sign
* make upload
* make upload_website
* make upload_github
* make startdev # make startstable for stable branch
* # announce with forum post, twitter post, patreon post
Early in the next release cycle update the dependencies
* Review any pinned packages in go.mod and remove if possible
* make update
* git status
* git add new files
* git commit -a -v
## Making a point release
If rclone needs a point release due to some horrendous bug:
Set vars
* BASE_TAG=v1.XX # e.g. v1.52
* NEW_TAG=${BASE_TAG}.Y # e.g. v1.52.1
* echo $BASE_TAG $NEW_TAG # v1.52 v1.52.1
First make the release branch. If this is a second point release then
this will be done already.
* git branch ${BASE_TAG} ${BASE_TAG}-stable
* git co ${BASE_TAG}-stable
* make startstable
Now
* git co ${BASE_TAG}-stable
* git cherry-pick any fixes
* Do the steps as above
* make startstable
* git co master
* `#` cherry pick the changes to the changelog - check the diff to make sure it is correct
* git checkout ${BASE_TAG}-stable docs/content/changelog.md
* git commit -a -v -m "Changelog updates from Version ${NEW_TAG}"
* git push
## Making a manual build of docker
The rclone docker image should autobuild on via GitHub actions. If it doesn't
or needs to be updated then rebuild like this.
```
docker pull golang
docker build --rm --ulimit memlock=67108864 -t rclone/rclone:1.52.0 -t rclone/rclone:1.52 -t rclone/rclone:1 -t rclone/rclone:latest .
docker push rclone/rclone:1.52.0
docker push rclone/rclone:1.52
docker push rclone/rclone:1
docker push rclone/rclone:latest
```