Releasing new versions

Preparing the release

• Understand what changes we are shipping by inspecting unreleased commits

git co main
git pull origin main --rebase
git log $(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags)...HEAD --oneline

• Determine next release version according to SemVer
• Create a short-lived branch

git checkout -b ufs/release-x.y.z

• Add notable changes the to changelog file
• Bump version at Cargo.toml
• Raise a PR preparing the release

Creating a release (GitHub admins-only)

• Ensure the next release is prepared (as described above)
• Execute the CD Workflow
• Go to the releases page
• Review the release draft and add any final touches (for instance, updating RenovateBot identity name)
• Publish the release 🚀

Updating distributions

• Clone dotanuki-labs/homebrew-taps
• Create a branch like ufs/gwv-x.y.z
• Update the gwv.rb formula with proper version and checksums
• Raise a PR