Archive:Release Checklist

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Since we don't release all that often or consistently, we seem to forget some key steps in the process. Hence, a checklist!
On this page the term "release" refers to the final stable release tag and binaries.

Testing

The following apply for all supported platforms and architectures.

• Compile.
• Video playback of popular codecs. (xvid, h264, vc1, mpeg2)
• Audio playback of popular codecs. (mp3, aac(+), ogg, flac, , ac3, dts)
• Playback from popular sources. (local, dvd, smb, http)
• Scripts/plugins.
• Initialization of new settings and databases.
• Updating of settings and databases from the last stable release.

Pre-tag/branch

• Update version string:

• configure.in (see AC_INIT)
• tools/android/depends/configure.in (see AC_INIT)
• tools/android/packaging/xbmc/AndroidManifest.xml

Bump android:versionCode="1" by one for each beta/rc/release

Change android:versionName"12.0-BETA3" to match others

• xbmc/utils/GUIInfoManager.h
• tools/darwin/packaging/xbmc-ios/mkdeb-xbmc-ios.sh
• tools/darwin/packaging/xbmc-atv2/mkdeb-xbmc-atv2.sh
• xbmc/osx/Info.plist (there are two strings to change)
• xbmc/win32/XBMC_PC.rc

• Update any necessary changelogs, readmes, known_bugs
• Update XBMC Credits

See below the version bump updates undertaken for Frodo Beta 1:

• XBMC Version bump
• json bump
• default webinterface bump
• Repo bump
• Scraper sync

Release

• tag release commit on github
• build release builds on buildbot
• move from staging to final location (using shell service)
• update links and analytics on xbmc.org/download
• add xbmc.org frontpage news item. tick 'Announcements' category also (for sidebar)
• Add trac version and set as default milestone.
• [WIN32] copy the file XBMC.pdb for the released binary to the team ftp server and name it accordingly (is this all we need for reading crash dumps?)

Release bump example

PPA builds

Info here

Post-release

Post release the steps in Merge_window should be followed again.