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> Release Issue Template
# Lotus X.Y.Z Release
We're happy to announce Lotus X.Y.Z...
## 🗺 What's left for release
<List of items with PRs and/or Issues to be considered for this release>
## 🚢 Estimated shipping date
<Date this release will ship on if everything goes to plan (week beginning...)>
## 🔦 Highlights
< top highlights for this release notes >
## Changelog
< changelog generated by bin/mkreleaselog >
## ✅ Release Checklist
First steps:
- [ ] Fork a new branch (`release/vX.Y.Z`) from `master` and make any further release related changes to this branch. If any "non-trivial" changes get added to the release, uncheck all the checkboxes and return to this stage.
- [ ] Prep the changelog
- [ ] Bump the version in `version.go` in the `master` branch to `vX.(Y+1).0-dev`.
- [ ] Follow the RC release process to cut the first RC.
Prepping an RC:
- [ ] version string in `build/version.go` has been updated (in the `release/vX.Y.Z` branch).
- [ ] tag commit with `vX.Y.Z-rcN`
- [ ] cut a pre-release on [github](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/releases)
Testing an RC:
- [ ] **Stage 0 - Automated Testing**
- Automated Testing
- [ ] CI: Ensure that all tests are passing.
- [ ] Testground tests
- [ ] **Stage 1 - Internal Testing**
- Upgrade our testnet infra
- [ ] 1 bootstrap node
- [ ] 1 miner
- [ ] Scratch nodes
- [ ] Wait 24 hours
- [ ] Remaining testnet infra
- Upgrade our mainnet infra
- [ ] Subset of development full archival nodes
- [ ]Subset of bootstrappers (1 per region)
- Report on new block validation time
- TODO: What other stats would we care about?
- If anything has worsened significantly, investigate + fix
- Confirm the following work (some combination of Testground / Calibnet / Mainnet / MinerX)
- [ ] Seal a sector
- [ ] make a deal
- [ ] Submit a PoSt
- [ ] (ideally) let a sector go faulty, and see it be recovered
- [ ] **Stage 2 - Community Dev Testing**
- [ ] Inform MinerX / early testers
- [ ] Ask close ecosystem partners to test their projects with the upgrade
- [ ] Powergate
- TODO: List of partners
- [ ] **Stage 3 - Community Prod Testing**
- [ ] Documentation
- [ ] Ensure that [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) is up to date
- [ ] TODO: Other docs checks?
- [ ] Invite the wider community through (link to the release issue):
- [ ] TODO: How should we announce this?
- [ ] **Stage 4 - Release**
- [ ] Final preparation
- [ ] Verify that version string in [`version.go`](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/tree/master/version.go) has been updated.
- [ ] Ensure that [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) is up to date
- [ ] Ensure that [README.md](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/README.md) is up to date
- [ ] Merge `release-vX.Y.Z` into the `releases` branch.
- [ ] Tag this merge commit (on the `releases` branch) with `vX.Y.Z`.
- [ ] Cut the release on Github.
- [ ] Final announcements
- [ ] Update network.filecoin.io
- [ ] TODO: What / where else?
- [ ] **Post-Release**
- [ ] Merge the `releases` branch back into `master`, ignoring the changes to `version.go` (keep the `-dev` version from master).
- [ ] Create an issue using this release issue template for the _next_ release.
## ❤️ Contributors
< list generated by bin/mkreleaselog >
Would you like to contribute to Lotus and don't know how? Well, there are a few places you can get started:
- TODO
## ⁉️ Do you have questions?
TODO