1 Checklists for PuTTY administrative procedures
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4 Locations of the licence
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7 The PuTTY copyright notice and licence are stored in quite a few
8 places. At the start of a new year, the copyright year needs
9 updating in all of them; and when someone sends a massive patch,
10 their name needs adding in all of them too.
12 The LICENCE file in the main source distribution:
18 - putty/windows/pageant.rc
19 + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
20 once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
21 - putty/windows/puttygen.rc
22 + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
23 once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
24 - putty/windows/win_res.rc2
25 + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
26 once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
27 - putty/windows/version.rc2
28 + the copyright date appears once only.
30 + the copyright date appears twice, once in the About box and
31 once in the Licence box. Don't forget to change both!
33 The documentation (both the preamble blurb and the licence appendix):
36 - putty/doc/licence.but
40 - putty-website/licence.html
42 Before tagging a release
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45 - First of all, go through the source (including the documentation),
46 and the website, and review anything tagged with a comment
47 containing the word XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE.
48 (Any such comments should state clearly what needs to be done.)
50 - Also, do some testing of the Windows version with Minefield, and
51 of the Unix version with valgrind or efence or both. In
52 particular, any headline features for the release should get a
53 workout with memory checking enabled!
55 For a long time we got away with never checking the current version
56 number in at all - all version numbers were passed into the build
57 system on the compiler command line, and the _only_ place version
58 numbers showed up in the source files was in the tag information.
60 Unfortunately, those halcyon days are gone, and we do need the
61 version number checked in in a couple of places. These must be updated
62 _before_ tagging a new release.
64 The file used to generate the Unix snapshot version numbers (which
65 are <previousrelease>-<date> so that the Debian versioning system
66 orders them correctly with respect to releases):
70 The Windows installer script (_four_ times, on consecutive lines):
72 - putty/windows/putty.iss
74 It might also be worth going through the documentation looking for
75 version numbers - we have a couple of transcripts showing the help
76 text from the command-line tools, and it would be nice to ensure the
77 whole transcripts (certainly including the version numbers) are up
78 to date. Sometimes these are marked in between releases as `0.XX', so
79 it's worth grepping for that too.
83 - putty/doc/psftp.but (in case it ever acquires a similar thing)
85 Finally, reset the epoch used for the $(Days) value computed in
86 Buildscr for the Windows binary version resource. It's probably not a
87 good idea to set it to _today_ (since it might clash with the
88 zero-valued field used in actual releases), so perhaps we should start
89 it 1000 days before the release date so as to have a largish number
90 recognisable as being the right kind of thing by its order of
91 magnitude. So, do this:
93 perl -e 'printf "%d\n", time/86400 - 1000'
95 and then substitute the resulting value into the definition of 'Epoch'
98 The actual release procedure
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101 This is the procedure I (SGT) currently follow (or _should_ follow
102 :-) when actually making a release, once I'm happy with the position
105 - Double-check that we have removed anything tagged with a comment
106 containing the words XXX-REMOVE-BEFORE-RELEASE or
107 XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE.
109 - Write a release announcement (basically a summary of the changes
110 since the last release). Squirrel it away in
111 atreus:src/putty/local/announce-<ver> in case it's needed again
112 within days of the release going out.
114 - Build the release: `bob -b 0.XX putty RELEASE=0.XX'. This should
115 generate a basically valid release directory as `build.out/putty',
116 and provide link maps and sign.sh alongside that in build.out.
118 - Do a bit of checking that the release binaries basically work,
119 report their version numbers accurately, and so on. Test the
120 installer and the Unix source tarball.
122 - Save the link maps. Currently I keep these on atreus, in
123 src/putty/local/maps-<version>.
125 - Sign the release: in the `build.out' directory, type `./sign.sh
126 putty Releases', and enter the passphrases a lot of times.
128 - Now the whole release directory should be present and correct.
129 Upload it to atreus:www/putty/<ver>.
131 - Do final checks on the release directory:
132 + verify all the signatures:
133 for i in `find . -name '*.*SA'`; do case $i in *sums*) gpg --verify $i;; *) gpg --verify $i ${i%%.?SA};; esac; done
134 + check the checksum files:
137 sha256sum -c sha256sums
138 sha512sum -c sha512sums
140 - Having double-checked the release, copy it from atreus to
141 chiark:ftp/putty-<ver> and to the:www/putty/<ver>.
143 - Check the permissions! Actually try downloading from the, to make
144 sure it really works.
146 - Update the HTTP redirects.
147 + Update the one at the:www/putty/htaccess which points the
148 virtual subdir `latest' at the actual latest release dir. TEST
149 THIS ONE - it's quite important.
150 + atreus:www/putty/.htaccess has an individual redirect for each
151 version number. Add a new one.
153 - Update the FTP symlink (chiark:ftp/putty-latest -> putty-<ver>).
156 + Adjust front page to say 'The latest version is <ver>'.
157 + Adjust front page to add a news item.
158 + Adjust Download page to say 'The latest release version (<ver>)'.
159 + Adjust Download page to update filenames of installer and Unix
160 tarball (both in the hrefs themselves and the link text).
161 + Check over the Download page and remove any mention of
162 pre-releases, if there were any before this release. Comment out
163 the big pre-release section at the top, and also adjust the
164 sections about source archives at the bottom.
165 + Adjust header text on Changelog page. (That includes changing
166 `are new' in previous version to `were new'!)
168 - Update the wishlist. This can be done without touching individual
169 items by editing the @releases array in control/bugs2html.
171 - Check the Docs page links correctly to the release docs. (It
172 should do this automatically, owing to the `latest' HTTP
175 - Check that the web server attaches the right content type to .HLP
178 - Run webupdate, so that all the changes on atreus propagate to
179 chiark. Important to do this _before_ announcing that the release
182 - After running webupdate, run update-rsync on chiark and verify that
183 the rsync mirror package (~/ftp/putty-website-mirror) contains a
184 subdirectory for the new version and mentions it in its .htaccess.
186 - Announce the release!
187 + Construct a release announcement email whose message body is the
188 announcement written above, and which includes the following
190 * Reply-To: <putty@projects.tartarus.org>
191 * Subject: PuTTY X.YZ is released
192 + Mail that release announcement to
193 <putty-announce@lists.tartarus.org>.
194 + Post it to comp.security.ssh.
195 + Mention it in <TDHTT> on mono.
202 The following want doing some time soon after a release has been made:
204 - If the release was made from a branch, make sure the version number
205 on the _trunk_ is up to date in all the locations listed above, so
206 that (e.g.) Unix snapshots come out right.