fwupd Release Notes

1. Write NEWS entries for fwupd in the same format as usual.

git shortlog 0.9.4.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new

Version 0.9.5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2017-xx-xx

New Features:
Bugfixes:

Update translations:

ninja-build fwupd-pot
tx push --source
tx pull --all --minimum-perc=5
git add ../po/*.po

2. Commit changes to git:

# MAKE SURE THESE ARE CORRECT
export release_ver="0.9.5"

git commit -a -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}"
git tag -s -f -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}" "${release_ver}"
<wait>
git push --tags
git push

3. Generate the tarball:

ninja-build dist

3a. Generate the additon verification metadata

sha1sum meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz > meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz.sha1
sha256sum meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz > meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz.sha256
gpg -b -a meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz

4. Upload tarball:

scp meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.* hughsient@people.freedesktop.org:~/public_html/releases

5. Do post release version bump in meson.build

6. Commit changes:

git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump"
git push