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Release process for Podman Desktop

Pre-requisites

  • Make sure everything that needs to be in the release is there
  • Notify main contributors
  • Check that the PR for Release Notes is almost completed by PM

In the below example, we will pretend that we're upgrading from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0.

Cut a new release using the release workflow

  1. Go to https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/actions/workflows/release.yaml
  2. Click on the top right drop-down menu Run workflow
  3. Enter the name of the release. Example: 0.12.0 (DO NOT use the v prefix like v0.12.0)
  4. Specify the branch to use for the new release. It's main for all major releases. For a bugfix release, you'll select a different branch.
  5. Click on the Run workflow button
  6. Close the milestone for the respective release, make sure that all tasks within the milesetone are completed / updated before closing. https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/milestones
  7. If not already created, create a new milestone for the upcoming release after for example 0.13.0 and click on Create milestone
  8. Check that https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/actions/workflows/release.yaml has been completed. Sometimes it will flake, so you may need to re-run it.
  9. There should be an automated PR that has been created. Approve PR for the upcoming version. The title looks like chore: 📢 Bump version to 0.13.0
  10. Edit the new release https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/releases/edit/v0.12.0
  11. Select previous tag (v0.11.0) and click on Generate release notes and the click on Update release

Package manager workflow

Pre-requisites:

Brew

Publish to brew. The workflow will create an automated PR to the brew cask repository https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/

  1. Go to https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/actions/workflows/publish-to-brew.yaml
  2. Click on the top right drop-down Run workflow
  3. Select the release (under tags), which would be v0.12.0
  4. Enter the release version 0.12.0. DO NOT add the v
  5. Click Run workflow

You can view the PR at: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pulls?q=is%3Apr+podman-desktop

Winget

Publish to winget. The workflow will create an automated PR to the Winget pkgs repository https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/

  1. Go to https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/actions/workflows/publish-to-winget.yaml
  2. Click on the top right drop-down Run workflow
  3. Select the release (under tags), which would be v0.12.0
  4. Enter the release version 0.12.0. DO NOT add the v
  5. Click Run workflow

You can view the PR at: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+podman-desktop

Chocolatey

Publish to chocolatey. The workflow will create an automatic submission to the chocolatey site at https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/podman-desktop/#versionhistory

  1. Go to https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/actions/workflows/publish-to-chocolatey.yaml
  2. Click on the top right drop-down Run workflow
  3. Select the release (under tags), which would be v0.12.0
  4. Enter the release version 0.12.0. DO NOT add the v
  5. Click Run workflow

Afterwards, you'll have to:

You can view the progress at: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/podman-desktop/0.12.0

Flathub

  1. Fork the repository https://github.com/flathub/io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop and clone your repository (example https://github.com/benoitf/io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop)
  2. Edit the file: io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop.yml
  3. Replace url: https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/archive/refs/tags/vXXX.tar.gz by the correct version (0.12.0)
  4. Download the package: wget https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/archive/refs/tags/v0.12.0.tar.gz
  5. Get the SHA256: shasum -a 256 v0.12.0.tar.gz
  6. Update io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop.yml with the new SHA256.
  7. Unpack the tar: tar zxf v0.12.0.tar.gz
  8. Run the command (updating the volume mount path) 
    podman run --rm -it -v $(pwd)/podman-desktop-0.12.0:/podman quay.io/podman-desktop/flatpak-node-generator yarn /podman/yarn.lock -o /podman/generated-sources.json
  9. Copy the file $(pwd)/podman-desktop-0.12.0/generated-sources.json to generated-sources.json
  10. Only commit the files:
  • generated-sources.json
  • io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop.yml
  1. Create a PR to the repository with a title like feat: bump to v0.11.0
  2. If the PR passes all tests, merge the PR

Announcement

Release notes

  1. Double check with the Project Manager / Technical lead that the release notes are ready
  2. Merge the release notes (there should be a pending PR such as: Release notes 0.12)

Github discussions

  1. Create a new announcement at https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/discussions
  2. Example template:
Hello,

A new release of Podman Desktop is out: [v0.11.0](https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/milestone/12?closed=1)

Download it from the [download section](https://podman-desktop.io/downloads) of the [Podman Desktop website](https://podman-desktop.io/)

Release Notes are available at https://podman-desktop.io/blog/podman-desktop-release-0.11

Full Changelog is available at https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/releases/tag/v0.11.0

Create a post on Reddit

An example of a previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/podman/comments/10moat6/a_new_version_of_podman_desktop_is_out_v0110/

  1. Click create post on the Podman subreddit.
  2. Title it: A new version of Podman Desktop is out: v0.12.0
  3. Copy over release notes (markdown works on Reddit)

Email announcement

  1. Send email to devtools-team at redhat.com, Podman-Desktop at redhat.com
  2. Send email to product-announce at redhat.com (high level)
  3. Send email to podman-desktop at lists.podman.io (no links to Red Hat internal slack, etc.)