rclone/RELEASE.md

Release

This file describes how to make the various kinds of releases

Extra required software for making a release

• github-release for uploading packages
• pandoc for making the html and man pages

Making a release

• git status - make sure everything is checked in
• Check travis & appveyor builds are green
• make check
• make test # see integration test server or run locally
• make tag
• edit docs/content/changelog.md
• 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 --tags origin master

• Wait for the appveyor and travis builds to complete then...

• make fetch_binaries
• make tarball
• make sign_upload
• make check_sign
• make upload
• make upload_website
• make upload_github
• make startdev

• announce with forum post, twitter post, G+ post

Early in the next release cycle update the vendored dependencies

• Review any pinned packages in go.mod and remove if possible
• make update
• git status
• git add new files
• git commit -a -v

If make update fails with errors like this:

# github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/md2man
../../../../pkg/mod/github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man@v1.0.8/md2man/md2man.go:11:16: undefined: blackfriday.EXTENSION_NO_INTRA_EMPHASIS
../../../../pkg/mod/github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man@v1.0.8/md2man/md2man.go:12:16: undefined: blackfriday.EXTENSION_TABLES

Can be fixed with

* GO111MODULE=on go get -u github.com/russross/blackfriday@v1.5.2
* GO111MODULE=on go mod tidy
* GO111MODULE=on go mod vendor

Making a point release

If rclone needs a point release due to some horrendous bug then a
point release is necessary.

First make the release branch. If this is a second point release then
this will be done already.

• BASE_TAG=${BASE_TAG} # eg v1.49
• NEW_TAG=${BASE_TAG}.Y # eg v1.49.1
• git branch ${BASE_TAG} ${BASE_TAG}-fixes

Now

• git co ${BASE_TAG}-fixes
• git cherry-pick any fixes
• Test (see above)
• make NEW_TAG=${NEW_TAG} tag
• edit docs/content/changelog.md
• make TAG=${NEW_TAG} doc
• git commit -a -v -m "Version ${NEW_TAG}"
• git tag -d -${NEW_TAG}
• git tag -s -m "Version ${NEW_TAG}" ${NEW_TAG}
• git push --tags -u origin ${BASE_TAG}-fixes
• make BRANCH_PATH= TAG=${NEW_TAG} fetch_binaries
• make TAG=${NEW_TAG} tarball
• make TAG=${NEW_TAG} sign_upload
• make TAG=${NEW_TAG} check_sign
• make TAG=${NEW_TAG} upload
• make TAG=${NEW_TAG} upload_website
• make TAG=${NEW_TAG} upload_github
• NB this overwrites the current beta so we need to do this
• git co master
• make LAST_TAG=${NEW_TAG} startdev
• git push
• Announce!