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Release process
This document includes the release instructions for:
- Feature freeze phase
- Publishing
remixd
to NPM - Publishing remix libraries to NPM
- Updating Remix's live version on remix.ethereum.org
- Updating Remix's alpha version on remix-alpha.ethereum.org
- Updating Remix's beta version on remix-beta.ethereum.org
Feature Freeze
Once feature freeze is done, remix_beta
should be updated to the latest master which will automatically update remix-beta.ethereum.org
through a CI job.
Use this unified command:
yarn run updateBeta
or individually:
git checkout remix_beta
git pull origin remix_beta
git reset --hard <master-commit-hash>
(master-commit-hash
will be latest commit id frommaster
branch)git push -f origin remix_beta
Testing
Testing is performed after the Feature Freeze on remix-beta.ethereum.org
. build-qa-doc.js
script can be used to generate the list of QA tasks. Instructions to use the file are given in the file itself: https://github.com/ethereum/remix-project/blob/master/build-qa-doc.js#L18
Once ready to run, it can be run using the Node.js: node build-qa-doc.js
Find out the latest release highlights and update in releaseDetails.json
file along with the version
string. Also, update release blog link under moreLink
field. This will set latest release details in the slide of Featured
section.
Remix Project NPM packages publishing
Once testing is completed, release will start by publishing Remix NPM packages.
- Make sure you are on
master
branch:git checkout master
- Pull the latest:
git pull origin master
- Create a branch:
git checkout -b bumpLibsVersion
remixd NPM release
yarn run publish:remixd
This command will ask for a new version.
Other libraries NPM release
yarn run publish:libs
This command uses lerna
and is solely responsible for publishing all the remix libraries. It will ask for a new version of each library. Make sure you are logged in to NPM.
Once these commands run successfully, the version for each remix library will be updated to latest in the libs' package.json file.
- Create and merge bump PR to master
Remix IDE Release
👉 Make sure release highlights and blog link are updated to show them on Home tab, Featured section.
Part 1. Bump the version and update Beta
Make sure remix_beta
is up-to-date with master
branch:
Use this unified command:
yarn run updateBeta
or individually:
git checkout remix_beta
git pull origin remix_beta
git reset --hard <master-commit-hash>
git push -f origin remix_beta
Create bump version PR:
- Create a new branch from
remix_beta
:git checkout -b bumpVersion
- Update package.json version. Usually, you need to remove
-dev
from the version string - Create a PR with base branch as
remix_beta
- Merge PR to origin/remix_beta
Create git tag from beta branch:
Use this unified command:
yarn run publishTagfromBeta
or individually:
git checkout remix_beta
git pull origin remix_beta
- Create tag:
git tag v<version-number>
,<version-number>
should be same as in package.json ofremix_beta
branch - Push tag:
git push --tags
Publish a new release on GitHub using created tag and generate automated changelog by selecting the appropriate previous tag
Part 2. Update the Remix Live
Updating the remix_live
branch latest to the remix_beta
runs the CircleCI build which updates live version of Remix IDE on remix.ethereum.org
Use this unified command:
yarn run updateLive
or individually:
git checkout remix_live
git pull origin remix_live
git reset --hard <remix_beta-commit-hash>
or<master-commit-hash>
sometimesgit push -f origin remix_live
CircleCI will build automatically and remix.ethereum.org will be updated to the latest.
Part 3. Upload zip file in GitHub release
- Once CI is successful for
remix_live
branch, Go to https://github.com/ethereum/remix-live - Download the zip file with the name starting with
remix-
- Upload the zip file in GitHub assets by editing the release for this version
Bump master branch
git checkout master
git pull origin master
- Create a new branch from
master
:git checkout -b bumpDevVersion
- Bump the package.json version, add the tag
-dev
if not already present. - Update new feature freeze date under
freeze-date
in.github/workflows/pr-reminder.yml
file - Create and merge PR to
master
Remix IDE Beta Release
- git fetch origin master
- git checkout origin/master
- git checkout -b bumpVersion
- update package.json version to the new version "vx.x.x-beta.1"
- merge PR
- git fetch origin master
- git checkout origin/master
- git tag v(version-number) (with "vx.x.x-beta.1")
- git push --tags
- github-changes -o ethereum -r remix-project -a --only-pulls --use-commit-body --only-merges --between-tags previous_version...next_version
- publish a beta release in github using the changelog
- drop zip file to the beta release (from https://github.com/ethereum/remix-live-alpha)
Remix IDE Alpha Release
remix-alpha.ethereum.org is automatically updated every time a commit is pushed to master
branch