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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 docs/xml/vg-entities.xml. (Exact
21 release date probably won't be known yet, updating it is in the list below
22 of tasks for the official release.)
24 - Make sure __VALGRIND_MAJOR__ and __VALGRIND_MINOR__ are correct
25 for the release. (include/valgrind.h)
27 - Write release notes, add to NEWS. Include a list of fixed bugs from
28 Bugzilla. It's unclear how to do this consistently. The approach
29 taken for 3.0.0 was to go to this page in KDE's bugzilla:
30 http://bugs.kde.org/query.cgi
31 and to create a search where
32 "Status and severity" / Status field is set to RESOLVED
34 "Involved People" / Email, bug-owner contains "jseward"
35 since I believe jseward@acm.org is the owner of all bugs.
36 This creates a long list of bugs which does not conveniently stop
37 at the previous release. Work backwards through this list until
38 either (1) you run out of patience, or (2) most of the bugs seem
39 to pertain to previous releases and are now irrelevant. In short
40 this is not a very scientific or robust way to collect up all
41 bugs fixed since last time.
43 Suggestion for next release: when a bug is fixed, update NEWS
44 directly => less chance to forget, and NEWS always up to date
47 - Other files that might need updating: README, README_DEVELOPERS,
50 - Add X.Y.Z and X.Y+1.Z.GIT versions to Bugzilla.
52 - Add "wantedX.Y.Z+1" and "wantedX.Y+1.Z" milestones to Bugzilla.
54 - Check whether copyright years need updating.
55 If so, run auxprogs/change-copyright-year in the top of the tree.
57 - Consider upgrading the C++ demangler.
58 auxprogs/update-demangler helps with that
60 - Contact Gregory Czajkowski ( gregczajkowski@yahoo.com ) and ask him
61 to build (make && make check) valgrind with ICC.
63 For each release candidate (should do release candidates for feature
64 releases, bug-fix-only releases might not need one):
68 - Do pre-release testing:
70 * Check it builds and regtests on a vanilla gcc-2.96 / RedHat 7.3 distro.
71 ??? is this really still up to date ???
73 * Check standard build and regtest on the following cpus:
76 x86, no sse (eg older VIA C3s, or perhaps even Pentium-MMX)
79 ppc32, no altivec (eg old iMac G3s)
81 * Check that the regression tests work on all platforms with more self checks:
82 export EXTRA_REGTEST_OPTS="--sanity-level=4 --helgrind:hg-sanity-flags=011111"
85 * check there are no memleaks or similar bugs by running all regtests
86 in an outer/inner setup (see README_DEVELOPERS).
88 * Check valgrind-listener works on all archs, also connecting to it
91 * Check memcheck can run all the insn-set tests. The testsuite
92 only runs those on 'none', but memcheck looks at all primops, and I've
93 been caught out by this before. Basically all the programs in
94 none/tests/{x86,amd64,ppc32}.
96 * Check XML output is still readable by Valkyrie and vk_logmerge tools
98 * Test with large applications (firefox and OOo 2.0) on all platforms.
100 * Run regression tests from gsl-1.6 on all platforms. This is a good,
101 thorough test of FP. Easy, using the scripts auxprogs/gsl16test.
103 * s390x: Run regression tests on a z900 machine. That is the oldest
104 supported model and there is no nightly build for it.
106 * s390x: Ensure README.s390 is up-to-date and URLs therein are not stale.
108 - Change release number in AC_INIT() in configure.in to "X.Y.Z-rcN", where
109 'N' is the release candidate number.
111 - Make the tarball ("make dist") and put it on the web somewhere (it doesn't
112 have to be on valgrind.org if another site is easier).
114 - Ensure the tarball builds, runs, regtests on the platforms of interest.
115 However redundant this seems, sometimes it can be that a from-the-repo
116 build works whereas a from-the-tarball one doesn't, usually due to some
117 trivial installation problem.
119 - Also check the HTML and print docs look sane (eg. links work). And the
120 man pages, esp. that there are no broken references (look for "???").
122 - Announce the release:
123 - Email valgrind-users and valgrind-developers (but not valgrind-announce).
124 - Make clear it's a release candidate.
125 - Make sure you tell everyone where to download from.
126 - Include the release notes in the email (maybe not necessary for release
129 - Wait 2--3 days for feedback. If bugs appear:
131 - Update the bug-fix list in NEWS if necessary.
132 - Do another release candidate.
135 For the official release:
137 - Again, update date in docs/xml/vg-entities.xml for the official release
140 - Do pre-release testing:
141 - Make sure regtests run ok on all platforms of interest.
142 - Make sure Mozilla and OpenOffice run ok on all platforms of interest.
144 - Change release number in AC_INIT() in configure.ac to "X.Y.Z".
146 - Make the tarball ("make dist").
148 - Check tarball builds, installs, regtests on platforms of interest.
149 If not, fix and repeat until success.
151 - Tag the repository ("VALGRIND_X_Y_Z").
153 If it's a X.Y.0 release, make "VALGRIND_X_Y_BRANCH" branch, too.
154 Useful examples (X.Y.0 major release):
158 git tag VALGRIND_3_3_0
159 git branch VALGRIND_3_3_BRANCH
162 (X.Y.Z minor release):
165 git checkout VALGRIND_3_6_BRANCH
166 git tag VALGRIND_3_6_1
171 - Put the tarball up.
172 - Update the docs -- both the tarball'd docs, and the online-readable docs.
173 - Update www.valgrind.org/downloads/current.html.
174 - Update www.valgrind.org/downloads/old.html.
175 - Add a news item to the front page and also to valgrind.org/info/news.html.
176 Include a link to the release notes. Possibly remove any old release
177 notices form the front page.
178 - Update the "release-date" and "release-version" in php/.htconfx.
179 - Other pages that might need updating: downloads/repository.html.
181 - Change release number in AC_INIT() in configure.ac to "X.Y.Z.GIT", where
182 X.Y.Z is one more than the release just done.
184 - Make sure the release notes are present in the NEWS file on the master and
187 - Announce the release:
188 - Email valgrind-users, valgrind-developers, and valgrind-announce.
189 - Email Linux Weekly News.
190 - Include the release notes in the email.