lotus/documentation/misc/RELEASE_ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
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> Release Issue Template
# Lotus X.Y.Z Release
We're happy to announce Lotus X.Y.Z...
## 🗺 Must-dos for the release
## 🌟 Nice-to-haves for the 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 >
## ✅ Release Checklist
**Note for whomever is owning the release:** please capture notes as comments in this issue for anything you noticed that could be improved for future releases. There is a *Post Release* step below for incorporating changes back into the [RELEASE_ISSUE_TEMPLATE](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/documentation/misc/RELEASE_ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md), and this is easier done by collecting notes from along the way rather than just thinking about it at the end.
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.
- [ ] Bump the version in `version.go` in the `master` branch to `vX.(Y+1).0-dev`.
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 [here](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/releases/new?prerelease=true)
Testing an RC:
- [ ] **Stage 0 - Automated Testing**
- Automated Testing
- [ ] CI: Ensure that all tests are passing.
- [ ] Testground tests
- [ ] **Stage 1 - Internal Testing**
- Binaries
- [ ] Ensure the RC release has downloadable binaries
- Upgrade our testnet infra
- [ ] Wait 24 hours, confirm nodes stay in sync
- Upgrade our mainnet infra
- [ ] Subset of development full archival nodes
- [ ] Subset of bootstrappers (1 per region)
- [ ] Confirm nodes stay in sync
- Metrics report
- Block validation time
- Memory / CPU usage
- Number of goroutines
- IPLD block read latency
- Bandwidth usage
- [ ] If anything has worsened significantly, investigate + fix
- Confirm the following work (some combination of Testground / Calibnet / Mainnet / beta users)
- [ ] Seal a sector
- [ ] make a deal
- [ ] Submit a PoSt
- [ ] (optional) let a sector go faulty, and see it be recovered
- [ ] **Stage 2 - Community Testing**
- [ ] Inform beta miners (@lotus-early-testers-miner in Filecoin Slack #fil-lotus)
- [ ] Ask close ecosystem partners to test their projects (@lotus-early-testers-eco-dev in Filecoin slack #fil-lotus)
- [ ] Powergate
- [ ] Glif
- [ ] Zondax
- [ ] Stats dashboard
- [ ] Community dashboards
- [ ] Infura
- [ ] Sentinel
- [ ] Protofire
- [ ] Fleek
- [ ] **Stage 3 - Community Prod Testing**
- [ ] Documentation
- [ ] Ensure that [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) is up to date
- [ ] Check if any [config](https://docs.filecoin.io/get-started/lotus/configuration-and-advanced-usage/#configuration) updates are needed
- [ ] Invite the wider community through (link to the release issue):
- [ ] Check `Create a discussion for this release` when tagging for the major rcs(new features, hot-fixes) release
- [ ] Link the disucssion in #fil-lotus on Filecoin slack
- [ ] **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
- [ ] Prep the changelog using `scripts/mkreleaselog`, and add it to `CHANGELOG.md`
- [ ] Merge `release-vX.Y.Z` into the `releases` branch.
- [ ] Tag this merge commit (on the `releases` branch) with `vX.Y.Z`
- [ ] Cut the release [here](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/releases/new?prerelease=true&target=releases).
- [ ] Check `Create a discussion for this release` when tagging the release
- [ ] Final announcements
- [ ] Update network.filecoin.io for mainnet, calib and nerpa.
- [ ] repost in #fil-lotus in filecoin slack
- [ ] Inform node provides (Protofire, Digital Ocean..)
- [ ] **Post-Release**
- [ ] Merge the `releases` branch back into `master`, ignoring the changes to `version.go` (keep the `-dev` version from master). Do NOT delete the `releases` branch when doing so!
- [ ] Update [RELEASE_ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/documentation/misc/RELEASE_ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md) with any improvements determined from this latest release iteration.
- [ ] Create an issue using [RELEASE_ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/blob/master/documentation/misc/RELEASE_ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md) for the _next_ release.
## ❤️ Contributors
< list generated by scripts/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?
Leave a comment [here](<link to release discussion>) if you have any questions.