Detailed Lazarus release template todo

This page can be used as template for a Detailed Lazarus release 1.x todo

Contents

• 1 Release preparation
• 2 Bugs to be fixed
• 3 Tagging release
• 4 Building release
• 5 Announcements
• 6 After release
• 7 Further
• 8 See also

Release preparation

• Gather list of todos from developers
• Add new LazTarget to the mantis for so we can postpone issue one release.

Bugs to be fixed

Things that need to be fixed before tagging:

Tagging release

• Set version to 1.0 in fixes_1_0 branch (Mattias)
  • open lazarus/lazarus.lpi in the IDE and change the version numbers in the project options dialog 1.0.1.1 for RC1, 1.0.1.2 for RC2, 1.0.1.3 for final
  • lazarus/ide/version.inc 1.0 RC2, 1.0
  • lazarus/lcl/lclversion.pas 1.0.1.1 for RC1, 1.0.1.2 for RC2, 1.0.1.3 for final
  • lclbase.lpk
  • lcl.lpk
  • lazarus/debian/changelog 1.0.1-1 for RC1, 1.0.1-2 for RC2, 1.0.1-3 for final
  • lazarus/lazarus.app/Contents/Info.plist v1.0 RC2
  • tools/install/linux/environmentoptions.xml same as version.inc
  • tools/install/win/environmentoptions.xml same as version.inc
  • tools/install/macos/environmentoptions.xml same as version.inc
  • check if lpl files needs updating by running ./tools/lplupdate -c (Mattias)
  • run ./tools/updatemakefiles (Mattias)
• Tag fixes_1_0 branch to tags/release_1_0_RC2 (Mattias)

svn copy svn+<ssh://svn.freepascal.org/FPC/svn/lazarus/branches/fixes_1_2> svn+<ssh://svn.freepascal.org/FPC/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_2_4> -m 'tagged 1.2.4 as tags/lazarus_1_2_4'

• Set version to 1.1 in trunk (Vincent)

Building release

• win32 (Vincent)
• source (Mattias)
• linux source rpm (Mattias)
• linux i386 rpm (Mattias)
• linux i386 deb (Mattias)
• linux x86_64 rpm (Vincent)
• Mac OS X powerpc (Vincent)

Announcements

• List of changes (Mattias)
• Mailing lists (Mattias)
• News item on www.lazarus.freepascal.org (Vincent)
• Twitter (who?)
• Sourceforge (Mattias)
• Freshmeat (Vincent)
• Wiki: downloading, installation, getting source hints (Mattias)
• Change IRC topic (Marc)
• New versions in Mantis (Marc)

After release

• Make sure snapshots are created correctly for the new version (Vincent)

Further

• Relax (all)
• Plan next release

See also

• comparable FPC document

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