Cilium release

This repository contains a Go utility for managing Cilium releases.

Building the tool

Build the utility with:

$ make release

Then you can run release help to list available commands.

$ ./release --help
release -- Prepare a Cilium release

Usage:
  release [flags]
  release [command]

Available Commands:
  changelog   Generate release notes
  checklist   Manage release checklists
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  projects    Manage projects
  start       Start the release process

Flags:
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Release checklists

This repository contains checklists for the release process for different kinds of Cilium releases (patch release, minor releases, ...). These checklists can be accessed when creating new issues with the GitHub interface, but the recommended way is to use the release tool to create an Issue automatically (and have all references to the target release substituted to the template placeholders).

For example:

$ ./release checklist open \
            --target-version v1.16.1 \
            --template .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release_template_patch.md

Create a new release

Use the release utility to update GitHub projects and create release notes for a new Cilium release:

For a x.y.z release, a.k.a patch release

$ ./release --base <base-commit>  \
            --head <head-commit>

Where:

• <base-commit> is x.y.z-1
• <head-commit> should be the last commit available for the x.y branch.

For a x.y.0 release, a.k.a minor release

$ ./release --base <base-commit>  \
            --head <head-commit> \
            --last-stable x.y-1

Where:

• <base-commit> can be found with git merge-base origin/vx.y-1 origin/vx.y
• <head-commit> should be the last commit available for the x.y branch.