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2 TODO list when doing a Valgrind release (with release number "X.Y.Z")
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5 There are two kinds of releases:
7 - Feature releases: X.Y.0, which can include new features.
9 - Bug-fix releases: X.Y.[12...], which only include bug fixes.
14 - Tell valgrind-developers you want to do a release. Give a timeframe for
15 everyone to check in any final features/bug-fixes they want in the
18 - Go over the docs, make sure they're up to date.
20 - Update version number and date in configure.ac. Probably just the
21 v_suffix_ver, set it to RC1. The v_rel_date probably won't be known yet,
22 updating it is in the list below of tasks for the official release.
23 Note that the date MUST be quoted with ["...date string..."].
25 - Make sure the after ./autogen.sh && ./configure
26 __VALGRIND_MAJOR__ and __VALGRIND_MINOR__ are correct for the release.
28 And that docs/xml/vg-entities.xml contains the correct release number
31 - Write release notes, add to NEWS. Include a list of fixed bugs from
32 Bugzilla. It's unclear how to do this consistently. The approach
33 taken for 3.0.0 was to go to this page in KDE's bugzilla:
34 http://bugs.kde.org/query.cgi
35 and to create a search where
36 "Status and severity" / Status field is set to RESOLVED
38 "Involved People" / Email, bug-owner contains "jseward"
39 since I believe jseward@acm.org is the owner of all bugs.
40 This creates a long list of bugs which does not conveniently stop
41 at the previous release. Work backwards through this list until
42 either (1) you run out of patience, or (2) most of the bugs seem
43 to pertain to previous releases and are now irrelevant. In short
44 this is not a very scientific or robust way to collect up all
45 bugs fixed since last time.
47 Suggestion for next release: when a bug is fixed, update NEWS
48 directly => less chance to forget, and NEWS always up to date
51 - Other files that might need updating: README, README_DEVELOPERS,
54 - Add X.Y.Z and X.Y+1.Z.GIT versions to Bugzilla.
56 - Add "wantedX.Y.Z+1" and "wantedX.Y+1.Z" milestones to Bugzilla.
58 - Check whether copyright years need updating.
59 If so, run auxprogs/change-copyright-year in the top of the tree.
61 - Consider upgrading the C++ demangler.
62 auxprogs/update-demangler helps with that
64 - Consider upgrading zstd compression
65 See README_DEVELOPERS for details.
67 - Contact Gregory Czajkowski ( gregczajkowski@yahoo.com ) and ask him
68 to build (make && make check) valgrind with ICC.
70 For each release candidate (should do release candidates for feature
71 releases, bug-fix-only releases might not need one):
75 - Do pre-release testing:
77 * Check it builds and regtests on a vanilla gcc-2.96 / RedHat 7.3 distro.
78 ??? is this really still up to date ???
80 * Check standard build and regtest on the following cpus:
83 x86, no sse (eg older VIA C3s, or perhaps even Pentium-MMX)
86 ppc32, no altivec (eg old iMac G3s)
88 * Check that the regression tests work on all platforms with more self checks:
89 export EXTRA_REGTEST_OPTS="--sanity-level=4 --helgrind:hg-sanity-flags=011111"
92 * check there are no memleaks or similar bugs by running all regtests
93 in an outer/inner setup (see README_DEVELOPERS).
95 * Check valgrind-listener works on all archs, also connecting to it
98 * Check memcheck can run all the insn-set tests. The testsuite
99 only runs those on 'none', but memcheck looks at all primops, and I've
100 been caught out by this before. Basically all the programs in
101 none/tests/{x86,amd64,ppc32}.
103 * Check XML output is still readable by Valkyrie and vk_logmerge tools
105 * Test with large applications (firefox and OOo 2.0) on all platforms.
107 * Run regression tests from gsl-1.6 on all platforms. This is a good,
108 thorough test of FP. Easy, using the scripts auxprogs/gsl16test.
110 * s390x: Run regression tests on a z900 machine. That is the oldest
111 supported model and there is no nightly build for it.
113 * s390x: Ensure README.s390 is up-to-date and URLs therein are not stale.
115 - Change release number (v_major_ver, v_minor_ver, v_micro_ver)
116 in configure.ac, set v_suffix_ver to RCN, where 'N' is the release
117 candidate number. Don't forget to ./autogen.sh and ./configure afterwards.
119 - Make the tarball ("make dist") and put it on the web somewhere (it doesn't
120 have to be on valgrind.org if another site is easier).
121 https://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/ is the default release site now.
122 You need a shell account on sourceware.org, then scp it with:
123 scp valgrind-X.YY-RCN.tar.bz \
124 USER@sourceware.org:/sourceware/ftp/pub/valgrind/
126 - Ensure the tarball builds, runs, regtests on the platforms of interest.
127 However redundant this seems, sometimes it can be that a from-the-repo
128 build works whereas a from-the-tarball one doesn't, usually due to some
129 trivial installation problem.
131 - Also check the HTML and print docs look sane (eg. links work). And the
132 man pages, esp. that there are no broken references (look for "???").
134 - Announce the release:
135 - Email valgrind-users and valgrind-developers (but not valgrind-announce).
136 - Make clear it's a release candidate.
137 - Make sure you tell everyone where to download from.
138 - Include the release notes in the email (maybe not necessary for release
141 - Wait 2--3 days for feedback. If bugs appear:
143 - Update the bug-fix list in NEWS if necessary.
144 - Do another release candidate.
147 For the official release:
149 - Again, update date (v_rel_date) in configure.ac for the official release
150 date and set v_suffix_ver to empty [] in configure.ac.
152 - Do pre-release testing:
153 - Make sure regtests run ok on all platforms of interest.
154 - Make sure Mozilla and OpenOffice run ok on all platforms of interest.
156 - Run ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make dist to make the tarball.
158 - Check tarball builds, installs, regtests on platforms of interest.
159 If not, fix and repeat until success.
161 - Tag the repository ("VALGRIND_X_Y_Z").
163 If it's a X.Y.0 release, make "VALGRIND_X_Y_BRANCH" branch, too.
164 Useful examples (X.Y.0 major release):
168 git tag VALGRIND_3_3_0
169 git branch VALGRIND_3_3_BRANCH
172 (X.Y.Z minor release):
175 git checkout VALGRIND_3_6_BRANCH
176 git tag VALGRIND_3_6_1
181 - Put the tarball up.
182 - Update the docs -- both the tarball'd docs, and the online-readable docs.
183 - Update www.valgrind.org/downloads/current.html.
184 - Update www.valgrind.org/downloads/old.html.
185 - Add a news item to the front page and also to valgrind.org/info/news.html.
186 Include a link to the release notes. Possibly remove any old release
187 notices form the front page.
188 - Update the "release-date" and "release-version" in php/.htconfx.
189 - Other pages that might need updating: downloads/repository.html.
191 - Change release number in configure.ac with v_minor_ver one more than the
192 release just done. Set v_suffix_ver to [GIT].
194 - Make sure the release notes are present in the NEWS file on the master and
197 - Announce the release:
198 - Email valgrind-users, valgrind-developers, and valgrind-announce.
199 - Email Linux Weekly News.
200 - Include the release notes in the email.