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Issue created Mar 12, 2018 by Cory Quammen@cory.quammenMaintainer39 of 41 checklist items completed39/41 checklist items

5.5.0-RC3 release

Prepatory steps

  • Update ParaView guides

    • User manual
      • Uploaded
    • Catalyst guide
      • Uploaded
    • Getting Started
      • Uploaded
  • Update release branch

    • Update version.txt
    • Create a merge request targeting master
    • Do: merge
    • git push origin update-to-5.5.0-RC3:release v5.5.0-RC3
  • Update release branch for paraview/paraview-superbuild

    • Update versions.cmake and CMakeLists.txt
      • ParaView source selections
      • Guide selections
      • Assumed version in CMakeLists.txt
    • Create a merge request targeting master
    • Build binaries (Do: test)
    • Do: merge
    • git push origin update-to-5.5.0-RC3:release v5.5.0-RC3
  • Create tarballs

    • ParaView (Utilities/Maintenance/create_tarballs.bash --tgz --zip -v v5.5.0-RC3)
    • Catalyst (Catalyst/generate-tarballs.sh v5.5.0-RC3)
  • Upload tarballs to paraview.org

    • rsync -rptv $tarballs paraview.release:ParaView_Release/v5.5/

Validating binaries

  • Python

  • import compiler

  • import numpy

  • Plugins are present and load properly

  • Text source LaTeX $A^2$

  • OSPRay

  • AutoMPI

  • Operating systems

    • macOS
    • Linux
    • Windows MPI (.exe)
    • Windows MPI (.zip)
    • Windows no-MPI (.exe)
    • Windows no-MPI (.zip)

Upload binaries

  • Sign macOS binary
  • Upload binaries to paraview.org
    • rsync -rptv $binaries paraview.release:ParaView_Release/v5.5/
  • Update https://www.paraview.org/files/v5.5/md5sum.txt
    • rsync -rptv md5sum.txt paraview.release:ParaView_Release/v5.5
  • Update https://www.paraview.org/files/listing.txt
    • Ask @utkarsh.ayachit or @sebastien.jourdain to do this
  • Test download links

Post-release

  • Notify paraview@paraview.org and paraview-developers@paraview.org that the release is available.

/cc @ben.boeckel /cc @cory-quammen /cc @utkarsh.ayachit

Edited Mar 13, 2018 by Cory Quammen
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