6.1 Release Checklist
Timeline (tentative)
- 2019-12-06 Release Kick-off
- 20YY-MM-DD First Release candidate 6.0.90 on https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
- ...
- 2020-MM-DD Final Release 6.1.0 on https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
- Please use
<strike> </strike>
to mark items below as done.
Kick-off
Update gnulib to latest version
- Completion Date: 12/6/2019
Must occur first as it could resolve existing, or create new, bug reports. You should run./bootstrap
in the source tree after updating to the new gnulib version.
Call for bug reports
- Completion Date: N/A (not done this release)
Put out a general call for reports on maintainers@octave.org and help@octave.org for all outstanding unreported known bugs.
Review Savannah bug and patch tracker
- Completion Date:
- Submitted (52) patches from bug tracker. (Updated 2020-01-18)
- Submitted (50) patches from patch tracker. (Updated 2020-01-18)
- Review open bugs and update to correct category, such as "Patch submitted", correct title if necessary.
One time tasks
GPL License activities
- Completion Date:
Update copyright statements for all source controlled files.- Update dates in any other locations (launch message, citation, MXE files, etc.).
- Add any new contributors to doc/interpreter/contributors.in who wish to be mentioned (don't add them without permission).
Style-check code base
- Completion Date: 1/12/20
- This will produce lots of whitespace changes, but no behavior changes. Must occur after patches have been added, since whitespace changes can prevent patches from applying.
Review documentation
- Completion Date: 12/12/2019
Grammar check documentation.Spell check documentation.Verify no functions missing from manual.Verify deprecated functions removed from "see also" links.Verify all formats (Info, HTML, PDF) build correctly.Review NEWS for any features which should be announced.Update major version number in "@subtitle Edition XXX" in octave.texi.
Call for translations
- Completion Date:
Update language translation files (*.ts).(Changeset)Create issue report on Savannah as a centralized location for uploading files.(Bug #57490)Call for translations for GUI strings on maintainers@octave.org.(Dec, 28 2019) (Jan, 14 2020)- Collect and push all translated files
Repeat until all bugs are resolved
- Completion Date first iteration:
Current state at Savannah
The Savannah links are created by using the "Display criteria", "Browse with the Advanced query form and MULTIPLE selection" form.
- Bugs to be fixed
- (33) Bugs marked as Crash (Updated 2020-01-08)
- (28) Bugs marked Configuration and Build System (Updated 2020-01-08)
- (11) Bugs marked as Build Failure (Updated 2020-01-08)
- (14) Bugs with severity >= 4 (Updated 2020-01-08)
- (52) Bugs marked as regressions (Updated 2020-01-08)
- OPEN bugs marked as WON'T FIX are
- (2) Not fixed for Octave 6.1 (Updated 2020-01-08)
Merge submitted patches
- Push translations provided by translators.
- Push patches from Savannah.
- (52) Patch submitted (Updated 2020-01-08)
- (0) Patch reviewed (Updated 2020-01-08)
- (4) Ready for test (Updated 2020-01-08)
make check
- Verify
make check
is passing on all buildbot combinations of OS and compilers. - Compiling with
-fsanitize=undefined
,--enable-address-sanitizer-flags
to check for memory leaks. Use other toolscppcheck
, etc.- Update PVS static analyzer results PVS static analyzer - 5.0 Release.
- Start discussion on maintainers@octave.org about which failing tests that must be fixed and which can be declared WON'T FIX.
Create new release candidate
- Ensure correct version information.
- Create hg tag in repository with release candidate version number.
- Verify
make distcheck
passes. - Verify
make dist
works. - Create Windows Installer.
- Upload release candidates.
- Add release candidate version to Savannah bug tracker.
- Announce release candidate to maintainers@octave.org, help@octave.org mailing-list, on web page.
Final Release
Update version information
- Completion Date:
- Ensure correct version information.
- Create hg tag in repository with release version number.
- Update NEWS (final release date).
- Update CITATION (version, year, URL).
- Update org.octave.Octave.appdata.xml (version number and release date).
- Update Savannah bug tracker version info.
- Update Savannah bug tracker: OPEN bugs marked as WON'T FIX should be marked as CONFIRMED (or more appropriate) for the final release.
- Remove release candidate versions from Savannah.
Announce final release
- Completion Date:
- Octave mailing-lists
- Octave web site
- This wiki
Post-Release
- Completion Date:
- Merge default onto stable to become the current stable release.
- Ensure correct version information.
- Remove all deprecated functions (either
OCTAVE_DEPRECATED
in C++ or scripts/deprecated for m-files) scheduled for deletion in "default" branch. - Move NEWS file to backup in etc/NEWS.X.
- Create new NEWS file.
Versioning hints
Read
etc/HACKING.md
carefully!!- Update configure.ac:
AC_INIT
OCTAVE_API_VERSION
OCTAVE_MAJOR/MINOR/PATCH_VERSION
OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE
- Update libtool versioning:
- liboctave/module.mk
%canon_reldir%_%canon_reldir%_current
- libinterp/module.mk
%canon_reldir%_liboctinterp_current
- libgui/module.mk
%canon_reldir%_liboctgui_current
- liboctave/module.mk