Skip to content

Release Process

Jump to bottom
Joe Grandja edited this page Apr 1, 2020 · 27 revisions

Perform a Milestone, RC or GA Release

NOTE: This release process uses the spring-build-conventions gradle plug-in.

Process Overview

  1. Update dependencies
  2. Update release version
  3. Build Locally
  4. Push the release commit
  5. Announce the release on Slack
  6. Tag the release
  7. Update to next development version
  8. Update version on project page
  9. Update Release Notes on GitHub
  10. Close / Create Milestone
  11. Announce the release on other channels

Detailed Steps

1. Update dependencies

If you are on master use 1.b, otherwise use 1.a

1.a Updating Manually

  • Dependencies are declared in gradle/dependency-management.gradle
  • Update Spring Framework and Spring Data at a minimum
  • Then find dependencies that need updating by running the update-dependencies.sh script:
./scripts/update-dependencies.sh

Prerequisites: The build directory has to exist to store the file build/updates.txt. This directory gets created when a new build is run, but is not present on a fresh git clone.

1.b Lock Dependencies

Master is setup to use Gradle dependency locking and version ranges so builds automatically take advantage of the latest dependencies. In order to ensure releases are reproducible, we must lock the dependencies before a release.

To lock the dependencies execute:

./gradlew writeLocks --write-locks

This writes out all the resolved versions. Run the build and if it passes, commit the changes.

NOTE: An issue may occur where a resolved version in a lock file includes a BUILD-SNAPSHOT version. For these scenarios, you can force to resolve the release version by appending the argument -PforceMavenRepositories=release to the above command.

2. Update release version

  • Update the version number in gradle.properties for the release, for example, 5.1.0.M1, 5.1.0.RC1, 5.1.0.RELEASE

3. Build Locally

  • Run the build locally with:
./gradlew check

4. Push the release commit

  • Push the release commit and Jenkins will build and deploy the artifacts
  • If you are pushing to Maven Central, then you can get notified when it's uploaded by running the following:
./scripts/release/wait-for-done.sh 5.2.0.RELEASE

5. Announce the release on Slack

  • Announce via Slack on #spring-security, including the keyword spring-security-release in the message. Something like:
spring-security-release 5.2.0.RC1 is out!
  • Announce via Slack on #spring-release, including the keyword spring-security-announcing in the message. Something like:
spring-security-announcing 5.3.0.RELEASE is available.

6. Tag the release

  • Tag the release and then push the tag
git tag 5.2.0.RC1
git push origin 5.2.0.RC1

7. Update to next development version

  • If dependency locks (1.b) was used, revert the commit that included the lock files so that the build uses the latest versions again.
  • Update release version to next BUILD-SNAPSHOT version and then push

8. Update version on project page

9. Update Release Notes on GitHub

wget https://github.com/spring-io/github-release-notes-generator/releases/download/v0.0.2/github-release-notes-generator.jar
  • Generate the release notes
java -jar github-release-notes-generator.jar \
    --releasenotes.github.organization=spring-projects \
    --releasenotes.github.repository=spring-security \
    --spring.config.location=scripts/release/release-notes-sections.yml \
    $MILESTONE release-notes

Note 1: $MILESTONE is something like 5.2.1 or 5.3.0.M1.
Note 2: The location scripts/release/release-notes-sections.yml is relative to the spring-security repo.
Note 3: This will create a file on your filesystem called release-notes.

  • Copy the release notes to your clipboard (your mileage may vary with the following command)
cat release-notes | xclip -selection clipboard
  • Create the release on GitHub, associate it with the tag, and paste the generated notes

10. Close / Create Milestone

  • In GitHub Milestones, create a new milestone for the next release version
  • Move any open issues from the existing milestone you just released to the new milestone
  • Close the milestone for the release.

11. Announce the release on other channels

Clone this wiki locally