Page History

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• dev@fineract.apache.org mailing list membership (and past activity, for credibility..)
• Apache Confluence Wiki Edit permission (for contributing to e.g. improving this page and creating the release notes overview page)
• Apache JIRA full permission (for moving issues to the next release)
• git committer privileges (for creating tags)
• familiarity with locally building the Fineract code (for creating the release ZIP)
• PMC membership (for uploading the release ZIP) - this can of course be delegated
• familiarity with PGP/GPG (for digitally signing the release ZIP)

TODO FINERACT-874 what about the release.sh script? Either clarify its role and when to use it here, or remove it from git.

1. Chose Release Manager (RM)

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% git checkout $RELEASE
% git tag -a release-$RELEASE -m "Fineract $RELEASE release"
#Make sure compiles/tests run fine and rat check is fine (% cd fineract-provider, % gradlew clean integrationTest); run additonally manual tests with the community app
% git push origin release-$RELEASE

Create source and binary artifacts. The steps are defined in Release Sign

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You will now get an automated email from the Apache Reporter Service (no-reply@reporter.apache.org), subject "Please add your release data for 'fineract'" to add the release data (version and date) to the database on https://reporter.apache.org/addrelease.html?fineract (requires PMC membership).

Update the website

Remove git release branch & merge release tag into develop branch

As discussed in FINERACT-1154, now that everything is final, please do the following to remove the release branch (and just keep the tag), and make sure that everything on the release tag is merged to develop and that e.g. git describe works:

git checkout develop
git branch -D $RELEASE
git push origin :$RELEASE

git checkout develop
git checkout -b merge-$RELEASE
git merge -s recursive -Xignore-all-space $RELEASE
# Manually resolve merge conflicts, if any
git commit
git push $USER
hub pull-request

Update the website

Finally update the https://fineract.Finally update the https://fineract.apache.org website with the latest release details. The website's HTML source code is available at https://github.com/apache/fineract-site.

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This release addressed 250 issues.

Readme: https://github.com/apache/fineract/blob/release-$RELEASE/README.md

Release page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/$RELEASE+-+Apache+Fineract

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