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# go-ipfs releases
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## Release Schedule
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go-ipfs is on a six week release schedule. Following a release, there will be
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five weeks for code of any type (features, bugfixes, etc) to be added. After
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the five weeks is up, a release candidate is tagged and only important bugfixes
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will be allowed up to release day.
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## Release Candidate Checklist
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- [ ] CHANGELOG.md has been updated
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- use `./bin/mkreleaselog` to generate a nice starter list
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- [ ] version string in `version.go` has been updated
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- [ ] tag commit with vX.Y.Z-rcN
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- [ ] publish gx version with `gx publish`, as per [gx release guidelines](https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx#publishing-and-releasing)
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- you will have to manually adjust the gx version to 'rc'
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## Pre-Release Checklist
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- [ ] before release, tag 'release candidate' for users to test against
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- if bugs are found/fixed, do another release candidate
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- [ ] all tests pass (no exceptions)
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- [ ] run interop tests https://github.com/ipfs/interop#test-with-a-non-yet-released-version-of-go-ipfs
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- [ ] webui works (for most definitions of 'works') - Test the multiple pages and verify that no visible errors are shown.
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- [ ] CHANGELOG.md has been updated
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- use `./bin/mkreleaselog` to generate a nice starter list
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- [ ] version string in `repo/version.go` has been updated
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- [ ] publish gx version with `gx release`, as per [gx release guidelines](https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx#publishing-and-releasing)
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- [ ] tag commit with vX.Y.Z
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- [ ] update release branch to point to release commit (`git merge vX.Y.Z`).
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- [ ] publish dist.ipfs.io
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- [ ] publish next version to https://github.com/ipfs/npm-go-ipfs
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## Post-Release
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- [ ] Bump version string in `repo/version.go` to `vX.Y.Z-dev`
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- [ ] Upload the final release to the github releases page: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/releases
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- Communication
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- [ ] Create the release issue
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- [ ] Announcements (both pre-release and post-release)
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- [ ] Twitter
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- [ ] IRC
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- [ ] Reddit
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- [ ] Blog post (at minimum, paste the changelog. optionally add context and thank contributors.)
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- [ ] Update HTTP-API Documentation on the Website using https://github.com/ipfs/http-api-docs
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