This page is a brain dump of the various items needed for a release.

Requirements

• a Java JDK in according with target JDK (java 5 for JMeter 2.7)
• a recent ant binary (1.8+)
• subversion (svn) installed
• a text editor
• hostname must resolve to ip address (not loopback)
  

Preparation

• request Bugzilla version update (on INFRA or if you are JMeter committer, ask for sufficient Bugzilla karma to do this yourself)
• extract files from SVN trunk into a new temporay directory

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/trunk jmeter_trunk

• Move to new directory:

cd jmeter_trunk/

• ensure changes.xml is up to date
• update JMeterVersion.java (version and year), build.xml (version and docversion) and NOTICE (year)
  • (src/core/org/apache/jmeter/util/JMeterVersion.java)
  • build.xml: section: <property name="jmeter.version" value="2.7"/>
• update xdocs/download_jmeter.xml to the new version
  • section: <!ENTITY release '2.7'>
• Download external jars

ant download_jars 

• build site documents, having first cleaned out existing files (so obsolete files will be removed): Wiki Markup\[

ant clean-docs

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ant docs-site

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• Commit update version files and docs tree in SVN to prepare next release.

svn commit

• build code to make a testing binary with this ant task:

ant -Djmeter.version=2.7 -Duser.name=username@apache.org distribution

• test the new binaries
  • GUI and non-GUI using host with graphic capability
  • non-GUI only using host with no graphic capability
  • ideally test on minimum supported Java and latest Java - especially for GUI
    

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• tag all the files with a new RC tag, e.g. v2_57_1_RC2 RC1
  • SVN commands (example from jmeter_trunk tree) :

svn copy https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/trunk https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/tags/v2_57_1_RC2RC1

• N.B. Tags must be immutable, i.e. must not be changed once created. A tag can be deleted if it is no longer needed, but must not be recreated.
  • If there is a problem with the contents of an RC tag, create a new tag, for example v2_57_1_RC3RC2
  • If the tag is part of an ongoing release vote, do not delete it whilst the vote is ongoing, even if the vote is now using a later tag. It can be useful to be able to compare the contents of tags as part of the voting process.
  • Once the release vote is over, intermediate tags are no longer needed, and can be deleted.
  • If the tag has not been used in a release vote, it can be deleted immediately.

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svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/tags/v2_57_1_RC2RC1 jmeter_v2_57_1_RC2RC1

• Move to new directory:

cd jmeter_v2_57_1_RC2RC1/

• download jars needed to build: "ant download_jars"

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ant distribution -Djmeter.version=2.5.17 -Duser.name=username@apache.org

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ant _dist_maven -Djmeter.version=2.5.17
ant sign_dist -Dgpg.keyname=<YOUR_KEY_ID> -Dgpg.secretKeyring=<path to secring.gpg i.e. ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg>

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ant maven_upload -Djmeter.version=2.5.17 -DrepoType=releases

• Go to Apache Repository
  • Section Staging Repositories
    • Check the RC box, add click on Close button (see Closing a staging repository)
  • You will receive a email with JMeter Maven Repo URLs
    • The main URL must be added to email vote.
      
• Generate RAT report (example on Linux with Java)

java -jar $RAT_HOME/apache-rat-0.8.jar ./apache-jmeter-2.57.1.tgz > rat-report-jmeter-2.57RC1.1RC2.txt
unix2dos rat-report-jmeter-2.5.1RC27RC1.txt

Vote on release

• Login to people.apache.org in SSH
• Create temporary location to receive dist files

mkdir -p ~/JMETER_2_57_1_RC2RC1/dist/

• From your computer, upload dist files and RAT report to the temporary location (e.g. personal dir: ~/JMETER_2_57_1_RC2RC1/dist/) in people.apache.org
  
• Return to people.apache.org
• Preparation RC publishing

mkdir -p ~/public_html/jmeter-2.5.1RC27RC1/dist/

• copy archives, sigs and hashes to dist

cp ~/JMETER_2_57_1_RC2RC1/dist/* ~/public_html/jmeter-2.5.1RC27RC1/dist/

• check hashes (before / after uploads)
  
  • Install the site docs:

cd ~/public_html/jmeter-2.5.1RC27RC1/
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/tags/v2_57_1_RC2RC1/docs docs

• Extract Javadocs: unzip -x jmeter-m.n.o.zip '*/docs/api/*' and move to docs/api
  • Example:

cd $HOME
cp  ~/public_html/jmeter-2.5.1RC27RC1/dist/apache-jmeter-2.5.17.tgz $HOME
tar xfz apache-jmeter-2.57.1.tgz
cd apache-jmeter-2.5.17/docs/
mv api ~/public_html/jmeter-2.5.1RC27RC1/docs/api
rm -r $HOME/apache-jmeter-2.5.17

• Wiki Markup
  send round \[VOTE\] e-mail to dev

• Wait for any feedback (at least 72 hours); address any issues raised, if necessary by creating another release tag
• If at least 3 PMC votes, then continue
  

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svn copy https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/tags/v2_57_1_RC2RC1 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/tags/v2_5_17

Move RC dist files to release

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cd ~/public_html/jmeter-2.5.1RC27RC1/dist

• Make sure that file group is set to jmeter (chgrp jmeter apache-jmeter*)

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cp apache-jmeter-2.5.17_src* /www/www.apache.org/dist/jmeter/source
cp apache-jmeter-2.5.17.zip* /www/www.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries
cp apache-jmeter-2.57.1.tgz* /www/www.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries

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svn switch http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/branches/docs-2.5.17/docs

• If the documentation needs to be updated between releases, create a branch docs-vm_n_o from the tag and switch to that
• for later updates, use "svn switch" or "svn update" as appropriate (use svn info to find current setting)
• The Javadocs are not in SVN so these need to be copied from the staging area
  • Example:

cd /www/jmeter.apache.org/
rm -r /www/jmeter.apache.org/api
cd ~/public_html/jmeter-2.5.1RC27RC1/docs
cp -R api /www/jmeter.apache.org
chmod -R g+w /www/jmeter.apache.org/api

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