systemd/docs/RELEASE.md
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Steps to a Successful Release Contributing default LGPL-2.1-or-later

Steps to a Successful Release

  1. Add all items to NEWS
  2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (ninja -C build git-contrib)
  3. Update the time and place in NEWS
  4. Update hwdb (ninja -C build update-hwdb, ninja -C build update-hwdb-autosuspend, commit separately).
  5. Update syscall numbers (ninja -C build update-syscall-tables update-syscall-header).
  6. [RC1] Update version and library numbers in meson.build
  7. [RC1] Rename .github/pull_request_template.md.disabled to .github/pull_request_template.md to display the warning about soft-freeze for new features
  8. [FINAL] Rename .github/pull_request_template.md to .github/pull_request_template.md.disabled to hide the warning about soft-freeze for new features
  9. Check dbus docs with ninja -C build update-dbus-docs
  10. Update translation strings (cd build, meson compile systemd-pot, meson compile systemd-update-po) - drop the header comments from systemd.pot + re-add SPDX before committing.
  11. Tag the release: version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"
  12. Do ninja -C build
  13. Make sure that the version string and package string match: build/systemctl --version
  14. Upload the documentation: ninja -C build doc-sync
  15. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
  16. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate.
  17. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically.
  18. Update IRC topic (/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released)
  19. [FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: git push systemd-stable --atomic origin/main:main origin/main:refs/heads/${version}-stable, and change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches).