Release Alpakka Kafka 4.0.1

[johanandren]

Release Alpakka Kafka 4.0.1

Cutting the release

• Check that open PRs and issues assigned to the milestone are reasonable
• For minor or major versions, update the Change date in the LICENSE file and update the licenses url in the build.
• Create a new milestone for the next version
• Close the 4.0.1 milestone
• Make sure all important PRs have been merged
• Update the revision in Fossa in the Akka Group for the Akka umbrella version, e.g. 22.10. Note that the revisions for the release is udpated by Akka Group > Projects > Edit. For recent dependency updates the Fossa validation can be triggered from the GitHub actions "Dependency License Scanning".
• Wait until main build finished after merging the latest PR
• Update the draft release with the next tag version v4.0.1, title and release description. Use the Publish release button, which will create the tag.
• Check that GitHub Actions release build has executed successfully (GitHub Actions will start a CI build for the new tag and publish artifacts to Maven central via Sonatype)

Check availability

• Check API documentation
• Check reference documentation. Check that the reference docs were deployed and show a version warning (see section below on how to fix the version warning).
• Check the release on Maven central

When everything is on maven central

• Log into gustav.akka.io as akkarepo
  • If this updates the current version, run ./update-alpakka-kafka-current-version.sh 4.0.1
  • otherwise check changes and commit the new version to the local git repository

    cd ~/www
    git status
    git add docs/alpakka-kafka/current docs/alpakka-kafka/4.0.1
    git add api/alpakka-kafka/current api/alpakka-kafka/4.0.1
    git commit -m "Alpakka Kafka 4.0.1"
    

Announcements

For important patch releases, and only if critical issues have been fixed:

• Send a release notification to Lightbend discuss
• Tweet using the @akkateam account (or ask someone to) about the new release
• Announce on Gitter akka/akka
• Announce internally (with links to Tweet, discuss)

For minor or major releases:

• Include noteworthy features and improvements in Akka umbrella release announcement at akka.io. Coordinate with PM and marketing.

Afterwards

• Update Alpakka Kafka dependency in Alpakka main repository
• Update version for Lightbend Supported Modules in private project
• Update akka-dependencies bom
• Update Akka Guide samples
• Close this issue