Update website announcing the release
Once the full 24 hours has elapsed since the final release artifacts were uploaded, the website must be updated to point to the new release. There are three specific things which must be updated:
The top-level symbolic links within
/doc
must be updated to point to the documentation of the latest release.The
released: false
field at the top of the release notes needs to be updated toreleased: true
to allow the release to be listed with the rest in the release archives. Thedate
field should also be updated to note the actual date and time of release.The
artifact-url
,checksum-url
, anddownload-path
must be updated to use the release directory (rather than the RC directory) and to not usedist.apache.org
.
Example: the pull request for guacamole-website announcing 0.9.11-incubating
Update JIRA version information
JIRA must be updated as well, as each version is listed for the sake of tagging issues. At this point, there should already be a version created for the recent release, but it will not be marked as released. Mark the version as “released” within JIRA, making sure a version number for the next release has been created as a placeholder:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/project-config/GUACAMOLE/versions
Email announcement
Finally, send an email with the subject [ANNOUNCE] Apache Guacamole [VERSION] released
to announce@apache.org, dev@guacamole.apache.org, and user@guacamole.apache.org. This email MUST be sent from an apache.org email address, and should contain an announcement like the following:
The Apache Guacamole community is proud to announce the release of Apache
Guacamole [VERSION].
Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway which supports standard
protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it "clientless" because no plugins or
client software are required; once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you
need to access your desktops is a web browser.
[VERSION] features [RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS].
A full list of the changes in this release, along with links to downloads
and updated documentation, can be found in the release notes:
http://guacamole.apache.org/releases/[VERSION]/
For more information on Apache Guacamole, please see:
http://guacamole.apache.org/
Thanks!
The Apache Guacamole Community
Where [VERSION]
is the version that was just released and [RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS]
is a brief description of the key features, improvements, and bug fixes of the release.