Release tracking ticket for 8.8.2
This is the template to be used to create release tracking tickets. Copy this into a new issue and fill in the TODOs.
This is the release checklist for the TODO milestone. See #16816 (closed) for the template that this was derived from.
Pre-release checklist
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Remove the release notes for the previous release (e.g.
docs/users_guide/8.6.*-notes.rst
) -
Make release branch (e.g.
ghc-8.8
) -
Make post-release branch (e.g.
ghc-8.9-start
) -
Submodules on released tags (produced using this script):
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libraries/Cabal
: todo (onCabal-v3.0.0.0-rc3
) -
libraries/Win32
: version 2.6.1.0 -
libraries/array
: version 0.5.4.0 -
libraries/binary
: version 0.8.7.0 -
libraries/bytestring
: version 0.10.10.0-ghc1 -
libraries/containers
: version 0.6.2.1 -
libraries/deepseq
: version 1.4.4.0-r1 -
libraries/directory
: version 1.3.4.0 -
libraries/filepath
: version 1.4.2.1-ghc1 -
libraries/haskeline
: version 0.7.5.0-ghc1 -
libraries/mtl
: version 2.2.2 -
libraries/parsec
: version 3.1.14.0 -
libraries/pretty
: version 1.1.3.6 -
libraries/process
: version 1.6.7.0 -
libraries/stm
: version 2.5.0.0-ghc1 -
libraries/terminfo
: version 0.4.1.4 -
libraries/text
: version 1.2.4.0 -
libraries/time
: version 1.9.3 -
libraries/transformers
: version 0.5.6.2 -
libraries/unix
: version 2.7.2.2-r3 -
libraries/xhtml
: version 3000.2.2.1 -
utils/haddock
: todo (onhaddock-library-1.4.5-release-471-ge6ca100973
) -
utils/hsc2hs
: todo (onv0.68.4-21-gefb556c
)
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-
Non-released submodules up-to-date:
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nofib
-
libffi-tarballs
-
libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/gmp-tarballs
-
-
Release notes (
docs/users_guide/x.y.z-notes.rst
) written -
Release notes linked in
docs/users_guide/index.rst
-
autoconf
scripts updated -
LlvmVersion
inconfigure.ac
is targetting intended LLVM version - Release notes mentions LLVM version requirement
-
llvm-targets
file updated -
Changelogs updated (these can be checked using
.gitlab/linters/check-changelogs.sh
):-
libraries/ghc-prim
-
libraries/integer-gmp
-
libraries/integer-simple
-
libraries/hpc
-
libraries/base
-
libraries/ghc-boot-th
-
libraries/ghc-boot
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- Verify that the ~"backport needed" label has no more issues/merge requests needing backport
- Verify that all CI builds are green before moving to release checklist
Release checklist
- Make tag
- Wait until builds finish
- Fetch release artifacts TODO: documentation
-
Sign and push release artifacts to
downloads.haskell.org
[TODO: documentation] -
Release/revise GHC-maintained libraries on Hackage [TODO: documentation]
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libraries/base
-
libraries/ghc-prim
-
libraries/array
-
libraries/stm
-
libraries/ghc-heap
-
libraries/ghc-compact
-
libraries/ghc-boot
-
libraries/ghc-boot-th
-
libraries/hpc
-
libraries/libiserv
-
libraries/template-haskell
-
libraries/integer-gmp
-
libraries/integer-simple
-
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Update ghc/homepage>:
- Write download page (see ghc/homepage>)
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Add news item to
index.html
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Add link to
download.shtml
- Look over changes locally
- Add release announcement to GHC blog
-
Push changes to
master
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Announce on:
GHC developers <ghc-devs@haskell.org>, GHC Users <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org>, Haskell Cafe <haskell-cafe@haskell.org>
- Announce on: Haskell Discourse, /r/haskell, Twitter
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Update
latest
symlink ondownloads.haskell.org
- Ensure that the Migration page is up-to-date
Post-release checklist
- Update the Wiki status page
- Update the language pragma history
- Mark milestone as closed
- Update the VersionHistory wiki page
-
Set
RELEASE=NO