Release checklist

This is a list of steps needed to perform a new graphANNIS release.

GraphANNIS uses semantic versioning. Language bindings can have their own version number, but should state which core version is used in its documentation.

  1. Create and push a new release branch release/<version> from the develop branch for feature releases. If you make a bug-fix release, create a branch named hotfix/<version> from the master branch.
  2. If this is a major or minor release, update the link to the Developer Guide documentation in the README.md to point to the new version short version, omitting the patch level and with adding a “v” prefix (e.g. https://korpling.github.io/graphANNIS/docs/v1.0/)
  3. Release the branch with the cargo-release plugin
    • cargo release release to release the current development version (e.g. 1.0.0-dev will be released as 1.0.0)
    • cargo release patch for hotfixes updates (e.g. 1.0.0 to 1.0.1)
    • cargo release minor for minor updates (e.g. 1.0.1 to 1.1.0)
    • cargo release major for major updates (e.g. 1.1.0 to 2.0.0)
  4. Merge the release branch both into the master and develop branch then delete the release branch.
  5. Create the release on GitHub, copy the changelog entry as release notes. Save the release as draft
  6. Wait for Continuous Integration (CI) to finish building the release artifacts for all systems and then publish the drafted release
  7. Update and release language bindings

In addition, for the binaries, CI will also build and publish the documentation using the gh-pages branch and a sub-folder docs/<short-version>, e.g. https://korpling.github.io/graphANNIS/docs/v0.22/.