Release tracking ticket for GHC 9.0.2
This is the template to be used to create release tracking tickets. Copy this into a new issue and fill in the TODOs. Those items marked with major-only can be ignored for minor releases.
This is the release checklist for the %9.0.2 milestone. See #16816 (closed) for the template that this was derived from.
Pre-release checklist
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Ensure that submodules are on released tags (the below is produced using this script):
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libraries/Cabal
: todo (onCabal-v3.4.1.0-1-g942639c18
) -
libraries/Win32
: version 2.12.0.1 -
libraries/array
: todo (onv0.5.4.0-1-gab53517
) -
libraries/binary
: version 0.8.8.0 -
libraries/bytestring
: version 0.10.12.1 -
libraries/containers
: version 0.6.4.1 -
libraries/deepseq
: version 1.4.5.0 -
libraries/directory
: version 1.3.6.2 -
libraries/exceptions
: todo (onv0.10.4-5-g23c0b8a
) -
libraries/filepath
: todo (onv1.4.2.1-ghc2-17-g9088df9
) -
libraries/haskeline
: version 0.8.2 -
libraries/mtl
: version 2.2.2 -
libraries/parsec
: todo (onv3.1.14.0-3-g1904924
) -
libraries/pretty
: version 1.1.3.6 -
libraries/process
: version 1.6.13.2 -
libraries/stm
: todo (onv2.5.0.0-ghc1-14-g444f672
) -
libraries/terminfo
: version 0.4.1.5 -
libraries/text
: version 1.2.5.0 -
libraries/time
: version 1.9.3 -
libraries/transformers
: version 0.5.6.2 -
libraries/unix
: todo (onv2.7.2.2-ghc1-3-gea13d99
) -
libraries/xhtml
: version 3000.2.2.1 -
utils/haddock
: todo (onhaddock-2.25.0-release-29-ge4c3f2d0
) -
utils/hsc2hs
: todo (onv0.68.7-4-g7accbea
)
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Non-released submodules up-to-date:
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nofib
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libffi-tarballs
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libraries/integer-gmp/gmp/gmp-tarballs
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Release notes (
docs/users_guide/x.y.z-notes.rst
) written -
Release notes linked in
docs/users_guide/index.rst
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autoconf
scripts updated -
Check that Unicode database in
base
(libraries/base/cbits/README.Unicode
) reflects current standard release (http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/) -
LlvmVersion
inconfigure.ac
is targetting intended LLVM version - Release notes mentions LLVM version requirement
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llvm-targets
file updated -
Changelogs updated (these can be checked using
.gitlab/linters/check-changelogs.sh
):-
libraries/ghc-prim
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libraries/integer-gmp
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libraries/integer-simple
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libraries/hpc
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libraries/base
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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
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Push a provision provisional release commit to trigger the release builds using
git push -o ci.variable="RELEASE_JOB=yes"
- Wait until builds finish; verify that they finished successfully
- Fetch release artifacts TODO: documentation
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Sign and push release artifacts to
downloads.haskell.org
[TODO: documentation] - Make a release tag
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Release/revise GHC-maintained libraries on Hackage using this script:
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libraries/base
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libraries/ghc-prim
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libraries/array
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libraries/stm
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libraries/ghc-heap
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libraries/ghc-compact
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libraries/ghc-boot
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libraries/ghc-boot-th
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libraries/hpc
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libraries/libiserv
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libraries/template-haskell
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libraries/ghc-bignum
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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
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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
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Update
/topic
in#ghc
- Update the VersionHistory wiki page
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Set
RELEASE=NO
- Create a release tracking ticket for the next release using the template in #16816 (closed)
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