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How to prepare a new release
----------------------------
. include/freetype/freetype.h: Update `FREETYPE_MAJOR`,
`FREETYPE_MINOR`, and `FREETYPE_PATCH`.
. Update version numbers in all files where necessary (for example, do
a grep for both '2.10.4' and '2104' for release 2.10.4).
. builds/unix/configure.raw: Update `version_info`.
. docs/CHANGES: Document differences to last release.
. README: Update.
. docs/VERSIONS.TXT: Document changed `version_info`.
. Clone the git archive to another directory with
git clone -l -s . ../freetype.test
or something like this and run
make distclean; make devel; make
make distclean; make devel; make multi
make distclean; make devel CC=g++; make CC=g++
make distclean; make devel CC=g++; make multi CC=g++
sh autogen.sh
make distclean; ./configure CC=g++; make
in the cloned repository to test compilation with both gcc and g++.
Note that it is normally not necessary to test standard C
compilation with the `configure`, `meson`, and `cmake` build tools
since this is done by the CI process of 'gitlab.freetype.org' for
every commit.
. Test C++ compilation for 'freetype-demos' too (using `git clone` as
above).
. Run `src/tools/chktrcmp.py` and check that there are no undefined
`trace_XXXX` macros.
. After pushing the new release, tag the git repositories ('freetype',
'freetype-demos') with
git tag VER-<version> -m "" -u <committer>
and push the tags with
git push --tags
. Check with
git clean -ndx
that the git directory is really clean (and remove extraneous files
if necessary).
. Say `make dist` in both the 'freetype' and 'freetype-demos'
repositories to generate the `.tar.gz`, `.tar.xz`, and `.zip` files.
. Create the doc bundles (`freetype-doc-<version>.tar.gz`,
`freetype-doc-<version>.tar.xz`, `ftdoc<version>.zip`). This is
everything in
<freetype-web git repository>/freetype2/docs
except the `reference` subdirectory. Do *not* use option `-l` from
zip!
. Run the following script (with updated `$VERSION`, `$SAVANNAH_USER`,
and `$SOURCEFORGE_USER` variables) to sign and upload the bundles to
both Savannah and SourceForge. The signing code has been taken from
the `gnupload` script (part of the 'automake' bundle).
#!/bin/sh
VERSION=2.10.4
SAVANNAH_USER=wl
SOURCEFORGE_USER=wlemb
#####################################################################
GPG='/usr/bin/gpg --batch --no-tty'
version=`echo $VERSION | sed "s/\\.//g"`
FREETYPE_PACKAGES="freetype-$VERSION.tar.gz \
freetype-$VERSION.tar.xz \
ft$version.zip"
FT2DEMOS_PACKAGES="ft2demos-$VERSION.tar.gz \
ft2demos-$VERSION.tar.xz \
ftdmo$version.zip"
FTDOC_PACKAGES="freetype-doc-$VERSION.tar.gz \
freetype-doc-$VERSION.tar.xz \
ftdoc$version.zip"
PACKAGE_LIST="$FREETYPE_PACKAGES \
$FT2DEMOS_PACKAGES \
$FTDOC_PACKAGES"
set -e
unset passphrase
PATH=/empty echo -n "Enter GPG passphrase: "
stty -echo
read -r passphrase
stty echo
echo
for f in $PACKAGE_LIST; do
if test ! -f $f; then
echo "$0: Cannot find \`$f'" 1>&2
exit 1
else
:
fi
done
for f in $PACKAGE_LIST; do
echo "Signing $f..."
rm -f $f.sig
echo $passphrase | $GPG --passphrase-fd 0 -ba -o $f.sig $f
done
FREETYPE_SIGNATURES=
for i in $FREETYPE_PACKAGES; do
FREETYPE_SIGNATURES="$FREETYPE_SIGNATURES $i.sig"
done
FT2DEMOS_SIGNATURES=
for i in $FT2DEMOS_PACKAGES; do
FT2DEMOS_SIGNATURES="$FT2DEMOS_SIGNATURES $i.sig"
done
FTDOC_SIGNATURES=
for i in $FTDOC_PACKAGES; do
FTDOC_SIGNATURES="$FTDOC_SIGNATURES $i.sig"
done
SIGNATURE_LIST="$FREETYPE_SIGNATURES \
$FT2DEMOS_SIGNATURES \
$FTDOC_SIGNATURES"
scp $PACKAGE_LIST $SIGNATURE_LIST \
$SAVANNAH_USER@dl.sv.nongnu.org:/releases/freetype/
rsync -avP -e ssh $FREETYPE_PACKAGES $FREETYPE_SIGNATURES \
$SOURCEFORGE_USER,freetype@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/f/fr/freetype/freetype2/$VERSION/
rsync -avP -e ssh $FT2DEMOS_PACKAGES $FT2DEMOS_SIGNATURES \
$SOURCEFORGE_USER,freetype@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/f/fr/freetype/freetype-demos/$VERSION/
rsync -avP -e ssh $FTDOC_PACKAGES $FTDOC_SIGNATURES \
$SOURCEFORGE_USER,freetype@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/f/fr/freetype/freetype-docs/$VERSION/
# EOF
. Prepare a `README` file for SourceForge and upload it with the
following script (with updated `$VERSION` and `$SOURCEFORGE_USER`
variables).
#!/bin/sh
VERSION=2.10.4
SOURCEFORGE_USER=wlemb
#####################################################################
rsync -avP -e ssh README \
$SOURCEFORGE_USER,freetype@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/f/fr/freetype/freetype2/$VERSION/
# EOF
. On SourceForge, tag the just uploaded `ftXXX.zip` and
`freetype-XXX.tar.xz` files as the default files to download for
'Windows' and 'Others', respectively.
. Trigger the automatic generation of the online API reference by
updating the `FT_VERSION` variable in file `.gitlab-ci.yml` of the
'freetype-web' repository.
. Announce new release on 'freetype-announce@nongnu.org' and to
relevant newsgroups. The text should include
- SHA256 checksums of all files,
- instructions how to verify the bundles using the `.sig` file data,
- the PGP public key used to sign the archives.
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David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg.
This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used,
modified, and distributed under the terms of the FreeType project
license, LICENSE.TXT. By continuing to use, modify, or distribute
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and accept it fully.
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