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Send an announcement email from your apache.org email address to announce@apache.org, dev@daffodil.apache.org, and users@daffodil.apache.org, (note: send three separate emails instead of one email with multiple TO/CC's), with the below template.
To send to announce@apache.org, your email app needs to be configured. Settings can be found on Apache's Committer s Committer Email page. For Gmail, you can request to "Send Email as" and with Thunderbird, you can add a new Outgoing SMTP Server and create a new Identity (Manage Identities) to send from the relay.
Make sure to update links and use "plain text" editing for the email. HTML editing often leads to broken links or incorrect formatting.
Make sure to update the project name and description when releasing the Daffodil VS Code ExtensionCode Block language text title \[ANNOUNCE\] Apache Daffodil 2.0.0 Released The Apache Daffodil community is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.0. Notable changes in this release include <short summary of changes>. Detailed release notes and downloads are available at: https://daffodil.apache.org/releases/2.0.0/ Apache Daffodil is an open-source implementation of the DFDL specification that uses DFDL data descriptions to parse fixed format data into an infoset. This infoset is commonly converted into XML or JSON to enable the use of well-established XML or JSON technologies and libraries to consume, inspect, and manipulate fixed format data in existing solutions. Daffodil is also capable of serializing or "unparsing" data back to the original data format. The DFDL infoset can also be converted directly to/from the data structures carried by data processing frameworks so as to bypass any XML/JSON overheads. For more information about Daffodil visit: https://daffodil.apache.org/ Regards, The Apache Daffodil Team
- The same or a similar announcement can also be posted to the DFDL Workgroup News page here: https://github.com/OpenGridForum/DFDL/wiki/DFDL-Workgroup-News (Done by a DFDL Workgroup member, like Mike B).
Send a tweet from the @ApacheDaffodil twitter account, mentioning the release version, highlights of changes, and a link to the release page. You will need to be invited/accept, via Tweetdeck, permission to tweet from the account. At which point you may compose the below style of message from Tweetdeck.
Code Block The @ApacheDaffodil team is excited to announce the release of version 2.0.0! Notable changes include <short summary of changes>. Details and downloads at https://daffodil.apache.org/releases/2.0.0/
- Various published DFDL schemas and examples will, most-likely, want to be updated so that they automatically reference the latest release of Daffodil from their main branch.
For some Daffodil releases DFDL schemas must also have updated library versions. (E.g., for release 3.3.0, in the build.sbt the scalaVersion must be "2.12.15" to enable Java 17 to work.) This is generally a good time to update other library versions used by the DFDL schema to newer versions consistent with those used by Daffodil, which are in daffodil/project/Dependencies.scala . (Ee.g., junit and junit-interface).
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