wiki:OpenvpnReleaseChecklist

Version 1 (modified by Samuli Seppänen, 6 years ago) (diff)

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Introduction

This is a release checklist for OpenVPN 2.x releases. Its primary purpose is to ensure that all release tasks are completed.

Pre-release checklist

Heads up to external entities

  • Notify OpenVPN Inc. marketing for a press release
    • Only in special cases (e.g. major security fixes or a major release)
    • 7 days prior is optimal, 48 hours is minimum
  • Access Server team
  • ​Distro package maintainers
  • Other external entities

Release checklist

Tasks marked with Bold have to be done by an OpenVPN Inc. employee as access to internal systems is required.

Update release dependencies

  • ​openvpnserv2
    • Merge pull requests
    • Rebase with upstream
    • Build
    • Put new version to build.openvpn.net
    • Put signature to build.openvpn.net
    • Tag the release
    • Push changes and tags to Git
  • ​easy-rsa
    • Merge pull requests
    • Rebase with upstream
    • Put updated tarball to build.openvpn.net
    • Put signature to build.openvpn.net
    • Tag the release
    • Push changes and tags to Git
  • ​openvpn-gui
    • Merge pull requests
    • Rebase with upstream
    • Put updated tarball to build.openvpn.net
    • Put signature to build.openvpn.net
    • Push changes and tags to Git
  • ​openvpn-build
    • Merge pull requests
    • Rebase with upstream
    • Update dependencies (e.g. openssl)
    • Tag the release
    • Push changes and tags to Git
  • ​openvpn-windows-buildtest
    • Update openvpn version for buildtest on the buildtest VM

Prepare for packaging

  • Build tarballs
  • Publish tar.gz on build.openvpn.net

Package

Smoketest packages

Update documentation

  • Man-page on Trac
  • Changelog on Trac

Publish packages

  • GPG-sign tarballs and Windows installers
  • Push Debian packages to apt repositories
  • Update community downloads page
  • Update links to latest release

Release announcements

  • OpenVPN mailing lists (attach changelog)
    • openvpn-users@…
    • openvpn-devel@…
    • openvpn-announce@… (sender needs to be explicitly allowed)
  • Forums
  • Twitter (optional)
  • Security announcement (as needed)

Final touches