Steps for an official release

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Overview

Steps detailing a release (4.1.1 is given as an example).

1. Create a rel-411 branch from master in the git repo.

2. Release an online development demo that uses the rel-411 branch and updates daily.

  • Also provide links for downloading rel-411 daily builds/packages(zip and tarball) to allow testing of installation and upgrading by testers

3. Publish installation, upgrade, and downloading instructions

  • Also update the INSTALL file

4. Finalize the translations in the rel-411 branch.

5. Bug fix and finalize the rel-411 branch.

  • Update the copyright/acknowledgements page by copying the copyright page from HERE to acknowledge_license_cert.html in openemr codebase

6. Create a list of new features in the rel-411 branch (since the last official release)

7. Prepare files for the Ubuntu/debian package

  • Ensure following files are updated at openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/ in codebase:
  • control
  • Update Version
  • Update Installed-Size (just estimate it, doesn't need to be accurate)
  • Add new package dependencies (if pertinent, for example in 4.1.0, adding php5-soap and also a Pre-Depends:debconf)
  • README.Debian
  • Change the dates at bottom of file to release date (use date -R to get correctly formatted date).
  • changelog.Debian
  • Add entry for new version:
openemr (4.1.1-1) stable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version

 -- Brady Miller <brady@sparmy.com>  Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:46:08 -0700
  • copyright
  • Add current date near top (use date -R to get correctly formatted date)
  • Modify the copyright years (two of them), if needed
  • preinst
  • Update the algorithm to upgrade the previous version correctly
  • (note that the release after 4.0.0 will need to add some code for the differences in where the version is stored in pre vs post 4.1 and also the paths related to sites/default stuff)

8. Release rel-411 branch by tagging in git repo with v4_1_1.

  • Things to remember before tagging the release.
  • Remove -dev from $v_tag (make it blank) in the version.php file
  • Ensure the 'allow_debug_language' global in locale section in library/globals.inc.php is defaulted to 0
  • Ensure the two User Manual links point to the correct online manual
  • Login into the sourceforge shell and go to the git repo and type:
git tag v4_1_1 rel-411

9. Build the tar.gz, zip and deb packages from v4_1_1.

10. Release packages on sourceforge

  • Upload via Project Admin
  • Upload release and a release notes file
  • Set file properties appropriately

11. Announce Release

  • Sourceforge
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • google+
  • Linkedin
  • Linuxmednews
  • Freecode

11. Build and release the Appliance.

12. Build and release the Windows XAMPP package.

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