Developer Area/Release Instructions/Minor Release

📋 Final Checks

🟡 Security team (if you don't have +2 review status, you won't be able to see these patches)

🚨 Make sure that any security reviews/patches are merged before proceeding 🚨

• Merge the 'Private' security patches.
• Update the related Launchpad bugs to 'Public security'.

🟡 Release manager

• CVE #'s - Security issues have an assigned CVE number?
• Backporting - security fixes backported to all supported versions that need them?
• Bugs fixed - all bugs going into his release have their fixes merged for all supported versions?
• Comms - to Mahara partners + drafted the forum posts?

🟡 All devs

• Confirm your minor point release number, i.e. check the latest minor point release and add 1, e.g. 21.10.4 -> 21.10.5
• (Security team) Cherry-pick the security bugs with the status ' Confirmed' to your minor point branch. e.g. _DEV
• Create a release on the milestone on Launchpad to receive the release generated tarballs
• git pull mahara-scripts
• Valid GPG - ensure you have a valid GPG key added to your Launchpad account: See https://launchpad.net/~username/+editpgpkeys
• lptools - ensure you have the lp-upload-project installed for uploading the release tars: apt-get install lptools

📓 Changelog and release notes

Use the templates below to structure your changelog and release notes. These are just to be preped. Filenames don't matter, the text is used later.

Reminder: Now that GitLab releases document the items included, we should be populating the CHANGELOG.md file

Changelog template

Note: You can copy the list of bugs from the milestone page (https://launchpad.net/mahara/+milestone/XX.YY.Z) and re-format the list.

Release notes templates

Template for minor point release notes