Preparation

1. Bulk update Jira to unassign from this release all issues that are open non-blockers and send follow-up notification to the developer list that this was done.

Branching

Skip this section if this is NOT the first release in a series (i.e. release X.Y.0).

1. Notify developers on the #cassandra IRC channel that you are about to branch a release.
2. Regenerate the documentation.
3. Commit these changes to trunk.
4. Create a branch for the release series:

   svn copy https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/trunk \
   https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/branches/branch-X.Y -m "Branching for X.Y releases"
   

5. Update the default version in build.xml on trunk to X.Y+1.0-dev.
6. Commit these changes to trunk.

   svn commit -m "Preparing for X.Y+1.0 development"
   

Updating Release Branch

These operations take place in the release branch.

1. Check out the branch with:

   svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/branches/branch-X.Y
   

2. Regenerate the documentation.

   ant docs
   

3. Update

   docs/releasenotes.html

   with release notes for this release.
4. Update the version number in build.xml
5. Commit these changes.

   svn commit -m "Preparing for release X.Y.Z"
   

6. Tag the release candidate (R is the release candidate number):

   svn copy https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/branches/branch-X.Y \
   https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cassandra/tags/release-X.Y.Z-rcR -m "Cassandra X.Y.Z-rcR release."
   

Building

1. Build the release & run unit tests.

   ant -Dversion=X.Y.Z test tar *targetdoesntexistyet*
   

2. Check that release file looks ok - e.g. install it and run examples from tutorial.
3. Generate the MD5 checksum of the release file.

   md5sum cassandra-X.Y.Z.tar.gz > cassandra-X.Y.Z.tar.gz.md5
   

4. Sign the release (see Step-By-Step Guide to Mirroring Releases for more information).

   gpg --armor --output cassandra-X.Y.Z.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig cassandra-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
   

5. Copy release files to a public place.

   ssh people.apache.org mkdir public_html/cassandra-X.Y.Z-candidate-0
   scp -p cassandra-X.Y.Z.tar.gz* people.apache.org:public_html/cassandra-X.Y.Z-candidate-0
   

6. Call a release vote on cassandra-dev at incubator.apache.org.

Publishing

Leaving this empty for now.

See Also

• Apache Releases FAQ