+ the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
- putty/mac/mac_res.r
+ - putty/unix/gtkdlg.c
+ + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
+ once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
The documentation (both the preamble blurb and the licence appendix):
The website:
- putty-website/licence.html
-
+
Before tagging a release
------------------------
- putty/mac/version.r
+It might also be worth going through the documentation looking for
+version numbers - we have a couple of transcripts showing the help
+text from the command-line tools, and it would be nice to ensure the
+whole transcripts (certainly including the version numbers) are up
+to date.
+
+ - putty/doc/pscp.but
+ - putty/doc/plink.but
+ - putty/doc/psftp.but (in case it ever acquires a similar thing)
+
The actual release procedure
----------------------------
within days of the release going out.
- On my local machines, check out the release-tagged version of the
- sources.
+ sources. Do this in a _clean_ directory; don't depend on my usual
+ source dir.
+ Make sure to run mkfiles.pl _after_ this checkout, just in
case.
+ - Build the source archives now, while the directory is still
+ pristine.
+ + run ./mksrcarc.sh to build the Windows source zip.
+ + run `./mkunxarc.sh X.YZ' to build the Unix tarball.
+
- Build the Windows/x86 release binaries. Don't forget to supply
VER=/DRELEASE=<ver>. Run them, or at least one or two of them, to
ensure that they really do report their version number correctly.
+ + Save the release link maps. Currently I keep these on ixion,
+ in src/putty/local/maps-<version>.
- Acquire the Windows/alpha release binaries from Owen.
- + Verify the snapshot-key signatures on these, to ensure they're
- really the ones he built. If I'm going to snapshot-sign a zip
- file I make out of these, I'm damn well going to make sure the
- binaries that go _into_ it were snapshot-signed themselves.
+ + Verify the signatures on these, to ensure they're really the
+ ones he built. If I'm going to sign a zip file I make out of
+ these, I'm damn well going to make sure the binaries that go
+ _into_ it are signed themselves.
+ + Make sure Owen has kept the Alpha release link maps somewhere
+ useful.
- Run Halibut to build the docs.
- - Build the .zip files.
- + The binary archive putty.zip just contains all the .exe files
- except PuTTYtel, and the .hlp and .cnt files.
- + The source archive putty-src.zip is built by puttysnap.sh (my
- cron script that also builds the nightly snapshot source
- archive).
- + The docs archive puttydoc.zip contains all the HTML files
- output from Halibut.
+ - Build the binary archives putty.zip (one for each architecture):
+ each one just contains all the .exe files except PuTTYtel, and
+ the .hlp and .cnt files.
+ + zip -k putty.zip `ls *.exe | grep -v puttytel` putty.hlp putty.cnt
+ + same again for Alpha.
+
+ - Build the docs archive puttydoc.zip: it contains all the HTML
+ files output from Halibut.
+ + zip puttydoc.zip *.html
- Build the installer.
binary zipfile, and the locally built x86 installer, with the
release keys.
+ The Alpha binaries should already have been signed with the
- snapshot keys. Having checked that, sign the Alpha binary
- zipfile with the snapshot keys too.
+ release keys. Having checked that, sign the Alpha binary
+ zipfile with the release keys too.
+ The source archive should be signed with the release keys.
- This was the most fiddly bit of the last release I did: the
- script that built the source archive was on ixion, so I had to
- bring the archive back to my local machine, check everything
- in it was untampered-with, and _then_ sign it. Perhaps next
- time I should arrange that puttysnap.sh can run on my local
- box; it'd be a lot easier.
+ Don't forget to sign with both DSA and RSA keys for absolutely
everything.
installer, and all signatures on the above.
+ subdir `alpha' containing the Alpha binaries, Alpha binary
zip, and all signatures on the above.
- + top-level dir contains the source zip (plus signatures),
+ + top-level dir contains the Windows source zip (plus
+ signatures), the Unix source tarball (plus signatures),
puttydoc.txt, the .hlp and .cnt files, and puttydoc.zip.
- Create and sign md5sums files: one in the x86 subdir, one in the
alpha subdir, and one in the parent dir of both of those.
+ The md5sums files need not list the .DSA and .RSA signatures,
and the top-level md5sums need not list the other two.
- + Sign the md5sums files (gpg --clearsign). The Alpha md5sums
- should be signed with the snapshot keys, but the other two
- with the release keys (yes, the top-level one includes some
- Alpha files, but I think people will understand).
+ + Sign the md5sums files (gpg --clearsign).
- Now double-check by verifying all the signatures on all the
- files.
+ files, and running md5sum -c on all the md5sums files.
- Create subdir `htmldoc' in the release directory, which should
contain exactly the same set of HTML files that went into
puttydoc.zip.
+ + It also needs a copy of sitestyle.css, because the online
+ versions of the HTML docs will link to this (although the
+ zipped form should be self-contained).
- Now the whole release directory should be present and correct.
Upload to ixion:www/putty/<ver>, upload to
- Update web site.
+ Adjust front page (`the latest version is <ver>').
- + Adjust filename of installer on links in Download page.
+ + Adjust Download page similarly.
+ + Adjust filenames of installer and Unix tarball on links in
+ Download page.
+ Adjust header text on Changelog page. (That includes changing
`are new' in previous version to `were new'!)
+ - Update the wishlist. This can be done without touching individual
+ items by editing the @releases array in control/bugs2html.
+
- Check the Docs page links correctly to the release docs. (It
should do this automatically, owing to the `latest' HTTP
redirect.)
- Announce the release!
+ Mail the announcement to putty-announce.
+ Post it to comp.security.ssh.
- + Mention it in <TDHIS> on mono.
+ + Mention it in <TDHTT> on mono.
- - All done. Probably best to run `cvs up -A' now, or I'll only
- forget in a few days' time and get confused...
+ - All done.
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