Steps for an official release
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Overview
Steps detailing a release (4.0 is given as an example).
1. Create a rel-400 branch from master in the git repo.
2. Release an online development demo that uses the rel-400 branch and updates daily.
3. Publish installation, upgrade, and downloading instructions
- Also provide links for downloading rel-400 daily builds/packages to allow testing of installation and upgrading by testers
3. Finalize the translations in the rel-400 branch.
4. Bug fix and finalize the rel-400 branch.
5. Create a list of new features in the rel-400 branch (since the last official release)
6. Release rel-400 branch by tagging in git repo with v4_0_0.
- Things to remember before tagging the release.
- Remove dev (make it blank) from the version.php file
- Ensure the debug language global in locale in library/globals.inc.php is defaulted to 0
7.Build the zip and tar.gz packages from v4_0_0 and release packages on sourceforge.
git clone git://openemr.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openemr/openemr git checkout origin/v4_0_0 rm -fr openemr/.git chmod -R u+w openemr chmod -R a+w openemr/sites/default/documents openemr/sites/default/edi openemr/sites/default/era chmod a+w openemr/sites/default/sqlconf.php chmod a+w openemr/gacl/admin/templates_c chmod a+w openemr/sites/default/config.php chmod -R a+w openemr/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/cache chmod -R a+w openemr/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/compiled mv openemr openemr-4.0.0
Linux (tarball)
tar zcpf openemr-4.0.0.tar.gz openemr-4.0.0
Windows (zip)
zip -r openemr-4.0.0.zip openemr-4.0.0
Debian/ubuntu (deb)
rm -fr openemr git clone git://openemr.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openemr/openemr git checkout origin/v4_0_0 rm -fr openemr/.git mkdir -p debian/DEBIAN mkdir -p debian/usr/share/applications mkdir -p debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/ mkdir -p debian/usr/share/man/man8 mkdir -p debian/var/www/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/control debian/DEBIAN/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/preinst debian/DEBIAN/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/postinst debian/DEBIAN/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/prerm debian/DEBIAN/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/postrm debian/DEBIAN/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/openemr.desktop debian/usr/share/applications/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/changelog.Debian debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/ gzip --best debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/changelog.Debian cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/copyright debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/README.Debian debian/usr/share/doc/openemr/ cp openemr/contrib/util/ubuntu_package_scripts/production/openemr.8 debian/usr/share/man/man8/ gzip --best debian/usr/share/man/man8/openemr.8 mv openemr debian/var/www/openemr fakeroot dpkg-deb --build debian mv debian.deb openemr_4.0.0-1_all.deb lintian openemr_4.0.0-1_all.deb
Sourceforge Upload
- Upload via Project Admin
- Upload release and a release notes file
- Set file properties appropriately
8. Build and release the Ubuntu package.
- Ensure new dependencies are added (such as php5-mcrypt)
- Write and updated dependencies list for installations that can't use the installers
