1 To make a release of Weston and/or Wayland, follow these steps.
3 0. Verify the test suites and codebase checks pass. All of the
4 tests should either pass or skip.
8 1. For Weston, verify that the wayland and wayland-protocols version
9 dependencies are correct, and that wayland-protocols has had a
10 release with any needed protocol updates.
12 2. Update the first stanza of configure.ac to the intended versions
13 for Weston and libweston.
15 For Weston's x.y.0 releases, if libweston_major_version is greater than
16 weston_major_version, bump the Weston version numbers (major, minor,
17 micro) to match the libweston version numbers (major, minor, patch).
19 Additionally for all Weston releases, if libweston's
20 major.minor.patch version is less than Weston's major.minor.micro
21 version, bump libweston version numbers to match the Weston
24 Weston releases are made with the Weston version number, not with the
25 libweston version number.
27 Then commit your changes:
29 $ export RELEASE_NUMBER="x.y.z"
30 $ export RELEASE_NAME="[alpha|beta|RC1|RC2|official|point]"
32 $ git commit configure.ac -m "configure.ac: bump to version $RELEASE_NUMBER for the $RELEASE_NAME release"
35 3. For Weston releases, install Xwayland, either from your distro or
36 manually (see http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html). If
37 you install it to a location other than /usr/bin/Xwayland, specify
38 this in the following env var:
40 XWAYLAND=$(which Xwayland) # Or specify your own path
41 export DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--with-xserver-path=$XWAYLAND"
43 If you're using a locally installed libinput or other dependency
44 libraries, you'll likely need to set a few other environment
47 export WLD="<path-to-your-local-installation>"
48 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$WLD/lib
49 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$WLD/lib/pkgconfig:$WLD/share/pkgconfig/
51 4. Run the release.sh script to generate the tarballs, sign and
52 upload them, and generate a release announcement template.
53 This script can be obtained from X.org's modular package:
55 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular/tree/release.sh
57 The script supports a --dry-run option to test it without actually
58 doing a release. If the script fails on the distcheck step due to
59 a testsuite error that can't be fixed for some reason, you can
60 skip testsuite by specifying the --dist argument. Pass --help to
61 see other supported options.
65 For Wayland official and point releases, also publish the publican
66 documentation to wayland.freedesktop.org:
70 5. Compose the release announcements. The script will generate
71 *.x.y.z.announce files with a list of changes and tags, one for
72 wayland, one for weston. Prepend these with a human-readable
73 listing of the most notable changes. For x.y.0 releases, indicate
74 the schedule for the x.y+1.0 release.
76 6. pgp sign the release announcements and send them to
77 wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
79 7. Update releases.html in wayland-web with links to tarballs and
80 the release email URL.
82 The wl_register_release script in wayland-web will generate an HTML
83 snippet that can be pasted into releases.html (or e.g. in emacs
84 insert it via "C-u M-! scripts/wl_register_release x.y.z") and
89 $ git commit ./releases.html -m "releases: Add ${RELEASE_NUMBER} release"
93 8. Update topic in #wayland to point to the release announcement URL
95 For x.y.0 releases, also create the release series x.y branch. The x.y
96 branch is for bug fixes and conservative changes to the x.y.0 release,
97 and is where we create x.y.z releases from. Creating the x.y branch
98 opens up master for new development and lets new development move on.
99 We've done this both after the x.y.0 release (to focus development on
100 bug fixing for the x.y.1 release for a little longer) or before the
101 x.y.0 release (like we did with the 1.5.0 release, to unblock master
104 $ git branch x.y [sha]
105 $ git push origin x.y
107 The master branch's configure.ac version should always be (at least)
108 x.y.90, with x.y being the most recent stable branch. The stable
109 branch's configure.ac version is just whatever was most recently
110 released from that branch.
112 For stable branches, we commit fixes to master first, then cherry-pick
113 them back to the stable branch.