Release process

I’d wish the release process to be more automated, but for now it’s still a few manual steps.

Prepare the PR for the new release

Edit files

  1. Find the next version, using semantic versioning (e.g. 1.2.3), depending on the changes in the changelog
  2. Execute ./new_release.sh NEW_VERSION (replace NEW_VERSION with the new version)
  3. Update the AppData release notes in data/io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse.appdata.xml.in:
    • Look for the <description> tag under the new <release> tag
    • Sum the release in one sentence in the <p> tag (e.g. highlights, …)
    • Paste the changes from CHANGELOG.md, and adapt it to HTML (see other releases in the file)

Create branch, PR and merge

  1. Create a new branch (e.g. release-1.2.3)
  2. Create a new PR
  3. When everything’s green: merge the PR

Create new release on GitHub

  1. Create a new release on GitHub’s new release page:
    • Choose a tag: Enter v followed with the new version (e.g. v1.2.3) and create the tag
    • Release title: the tag (e.g. v1.2.3)
    • Description:
      • For the first paragraph, paste the first paragraph from the release notes

      • For the second paragraph, got to CHANGELOG.md and copy the URL anchor to the new release, then add this sentence (adapt the changelog link):

        For a more detailed list of changes, see the
[changelog](https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#xyz---yyyy-mm-dd).
  2. Publish release

Create new release on Flatpak

  1. Clone the Flathub repository: https://github.com/flathub/io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse
  2. Copy the contents of io.github.mightycreak.Diffuse.yml in Diffuse repository to Flathub’s
  3. Edit the file:

    • Replace the content of the diffuse module with these lines:

      - name: diffuse
  builddir: true
  buildsystem: meson
  config-opts:
    - -Dlog_print_output=true
    - -Duse_flatpak=true
  sources:
     - type: git
       url: https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse
       tag: <tag>
       commit: <tag_commit>
    • Replace <tag> with the release tag (e.g. v1.2.3)
    • Replace <tag_commit> with the release tag commit (e.g. c0cefac1c4ab99a309b65002e820f5c815e368e1)
  4. Create commit with changes and push to main
  5. Check the build on Flathub: https://flathub.org/builds/
  6. When it’s done and successful, publish the build