release.md

Releasing guide

Note To do a v3.x release, go to v3 releasing guide.

Note To do a v2.x release, go to v2 releasing guide.

Perform the following steps in order to release new verions of helm chart.

1. Prepare and merge PR with the following changes:

   • update changelog by running make update-changelog VERSION=x.y.z where x.y.z is the new version number.
   • update chart
   • update README.md
     • add link to minor version, if created
     • set "supported until" date for previous minor version to 6 months after today

2. Create and push new tag:

   export TAG=x.y.z
   git checkout main
   git pull
   git tag -sm "v${TAG}" "v${TAG}"
   git push origin "v${TAG}"

3. Prepare release branch:

   • branch out:

     git checkout -b "release-v${TAG%.*}"

   • update docs/README.md (for unreleased version in title)

   • push branch:

     git push -u origin "release-v${TAG%.*}"

4. Create new release. Copy generated changelog to release notes.