Pillow/RELEASING.md

Release Checklist

Main Release

Released quarterly on the first day of January, April, July, October.

• Open a release ticket e.g. https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/1174
• Develop and prepare release in master branch.
• Check Travis CI to confirm passing tests in master branch.
• In compliance with https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/, update version identifier in:

    PIL/__init__.py setup.py _imaging.c

• Update CHANGES.rst.
• Run pre-release check via make pre.
• Create branch and tag for release e.g.:

    $ git branch 2.9.x
    $ git tag 2.9.0
    $ git push --all
    $ git push --tags

• Create and upload source distributions e.g.:

    $ make sdistup

• Create and upload binary distributions

Point Release

Released as needed for security, installation or critical bug fixes.

• Make necessary changes in master branch.
• Update CHANGES.rst.
• Cherry pick individual commits from master branch to release branch e.g. 2.9.x.
• Check Travis CI to confirm passing tests in release branch e.g. 2.9.x.
• Checkout release branch e.g.:

    git checkout -t remotes/origin/2.9.x

• In compliance with https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/, update version identifier in:

    PIL/__init__.py setup.py _imaging.c

• Run pre-release check via make pre.
• Create tag for release e.g.:

    $ git tag 2.9.1
    $ git push --tags

• Create and upload source distributions e.g.:

    $ make sdistup

• Create and upload binary distributions

Embargoed Release

Released as needed privately to individual vendors for critical security-related bug fixes.

• Prepare patch for all versions that will get a fix. Test against local installations.
• Commit against master, cherry pick to affected release branches.
• Run local test matrix on each release & Python version.
• Privately send to distros.
• Run pre-release check via make pre
• Amend any commits with the CVE #
• On release date, tag and push to GitHub.

    git checkout 2.5.x
    git tag 2.5.3
    git push origin 2.5.x
    git push origin --tags

• Create and upload source distributions e.g.:

    $ make sdistup

• Create and upload binary distributions

Binary Distributions

• Contact @cgohlke for Windows binaries.

(Debian requests a tarball, everyone else would just prefer that we choose one and stick to it. So both it is)

• Push a commit to https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow-wheels to build OSX versions (UNDONE latest tag or specific release???)
• Retrieve the OS X Wheels from Rackspace files, upload to PyPi (Twine?)
• Grab Windows binaries, twine upload dist/*.[whl|egg]. Manually upload .exe installers.
• Announce release availability. Twitter, web.