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Check that licenses are current with
make verify-licenses
- If there are any changes, submit a separate PR to update licenses using
make update-licenses
.
- If there are any changes, submit a separate PR to update licenses using
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Prep update PR for the orb with the new version of buildevents.
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Update
CHANGELOG.md
with the changes since the last release.-
Use below command to get a list of all commits since last release
git log <last-release-tag>..HEAD --pretty='%Creset- %s | [%an](https://github.com/%an)'
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Copy the output from the command above into the top of changelog
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fix each
https://github.com/<author-name>
to point to the correct github username (thegit log
command can't do this automatically) -
organize each commit based on their prefix into below three categories:
### Features - <a-commit-with-feat-prefix> ### Fixes - <a-commit-with-fix-prefix> ### Maintenance - <a-commit-with-maintenance-prefix>
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Commit changes, push, and open a release preparation pull request for review.
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Once the pull request is merged, fetch the updated
main
branch. -
Apply a tag for the new version on the merged commit (e.g.
git tag -a v2.3.1 -m "v2.3.1"
) -
Push the tag upstream (this will kick off the release pipeline in CI) e.g.
git push origin v2.3.1
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Ensure that there is a draft GitHub release created as part of CI publish steps.
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Click "generate release notes" in GitHub for full changelog notes and any new contributors.