Creating a release - linuxmuster/linuxmuster-linuxclient7 GitHub Wiki

Version schema:

  • General: major.minor.patch (semver)
  • Pre-releases (release candidates) must end with ~XX where XX is the number of the pre-release
    • So, before version 7.1.1 is released, there may be versions 7.1.1~01, 7.1.1~02, and so on
  • Releases don't have a suffix.
    • So, once version 7.1.1 is ready, it is published as 7.1.1
  • This concept ensures that stable releases are always evaluated as a higher version number than pre-releases.

The following steps have to be followed to create a release:

  1. Update the changelog file
  2. commit all changes
  3. Do a git push: git push
  4. Create a git tag in the format v+VERSION (eg. v7.0.0): git tag vVERSION
  5. Push tags: git push --tags

In case of a mistake, the tag can be deleted:

  1. Locally: git tag -d vVERSION
  2. Remotely: git push --delete origin vVERSION
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