Release Process

• set TAG fuse-A.B.C
• Update version in
  • ChangeLog.rst
  • meson.build
  • include/fuse_common.h (#define FUSE_{MINOR/MAJOR}_VERSION)
• When creating new minor release:
  • Create signing key for the next release: P=fuse-<A.B+1> signify-openbsd -G -n -p signify/$P.pub -s signify/$P.sec; git add signify/$P.pub
  • Expire old release signing keys (keep one around just in case)
• To update authors run : dev-docs/extend-authors.sh
• git commit --all -m "Released $TAG"
• git tag $TAG
• Build tarball, ./make_release_tarball.sh
• Test build:
  • cd fuse-x.y.z
  • md build && (cd build && meson .. && ninja)
  • sudo sudo chown root:root build/util/fusermount3
  • sudo chmod 4755 build/util/fusermount3
  • (cd build; python3 -m pytest test/)
• Upload API docs:
  • rm -r ../libfuse.github.io/doxygen && cp -a doc/html ../libfuse.github.io/doxygen
  • git -C ../libfuse.github.io add doxygen/
  • git -C ../libfuse.github.io commit --all -m "Re-generated doxygen documentation"
  • git -C ../libfuse.github.io push
• git checkout master && git push && git push --tags
• Create release on Github
• Write announcement to fuse-devel

Announcement email template

To: [email protected]
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] libfuse XXXX has been released

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce the release of libfuse XXX.

The source code is available for download at https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases.

Please report any issues on this mailing list or the GitHub issue
tracker at https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/issues.

From ChangeLog.rst:

[INSERT NEW ENTRIES]

The following people have contributed code to this release:

[INSERT CONTRIBUTORS]

(a full list of credits containing all known contributors is included in
the `AUTHORS` file).

Best,
-Nikolaus