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Making a release

For branch organization we use a variation of the Github Flow with the latest release branch named stable (due to ReadTheDocs constraints).

Making a major release

  1. Make a new PR and for all occurrences of https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/pyodide/dev/full/ in ./docs/ replace dev with the release version vX.Y.Z (note the presence of the leading v). This also applies to docs/conf.py

  2. Set version in src/py/pyodide/__init__.py

  3. Make sure the change log is up to date.

    • Indicate the release date in the change log.

    • Generate the list of contributors for the release at the end of the changelog entry with,

      git shortlog -s LAST_TAG.. | cut -f2- | sort --ignore-case | tr '\n' ';' | sed 's/;/, /g;s/, $//' | fold -s

      where LAST_TAG is the tag for the last release. Merge the PR.

  4. Assuming the upstream stable branch exists, rename it to a release branch for the previous major version. For instance if last release was, 0.20.0, the corresponding release branch would be 0.20.X,

    git fetch upstream
git checkout stable
git checkout -b 0.20.X
git push upstream 0.20.X
git branch -D stable    # delete locally

  5. Create a tag X.Y.Z (without leading v) and push it to upstream,

    git tag X.Y.Z
git push upstream X.Y.Z

    Create a new stable branch from this tag,

    git checkout -b stable
git push upstream stable --force

    Wait for the CI to pass and create the release on GitHub.

  6. Build the pre-built Docker image locally and push,

    docker build -t pyodide/pyodide:X.Y.Z -f Dockerfile-prebuilt --build-arg VERSION=BB .
docker push

    where BB is the last version of the pyodide-env Docker image.

  7. Revert Step 1. and increment the version in src/py/pyodide/__init__.py to the next version specified by Semantic Versioning.

Making a minor release

For a minor release, commits need to be added to the stable branch, ideally via a PR. This can be done with either,

  • git cherry picking individual commits,

    git checkout stable
git pull
git checkout -b backport-branch
git cherry-pick <commit-hash>

  • or with interactive rebase,

    git fetch upstream
git checkout stable
git pull
git checkout -b backport-branch
git rebase -i upstream/main

    and indicate which commits to take from main in the UI.

Then follow steps 2, 3, and 6 from Making a major release.

Fixing documentation for a released version

Cherry pick the corresponding documentation commits to the stable branch. Use [skip ci] in the commit message.