Releasing

Making a release of QtWebKit

This document describes the steps towards making a release.

1. Update Conan dependencies if needed

• Check with https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/wiki/Conan if dependencies are up to date
• If they aren't, build new packages and commit new manifests to qt5 repo, as described at https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/wiki/Conan#updating-packages

2. The last commit before release

• In qtwebkit-stable: update version number in ​Source/cmake/OptionsQt.cmake, update values in .github/workflows/draft_release.yml
• Add changelog file? ^
• In qtwebkit-5.212: merge qtwebkit-stable

3. Run final tests before release

• Run layout tests in release and debug
• Run jsc tests

4. Integrate snapshot of qtwebkit-5.212 into snapshots repo

Follow instruction at https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/wiki/How-to-make-new-snapshot-and-build-it-with-Coin

• On step 1 make sure that Qt modules are used from oficially released Qt tag
• Do optional steps 3, 4, 5

5. Create release on GitHub, upload binaries and source tarball to it

• Update QTWEBKIT_BUILD_NUMBER in Secrets section of GitHub repository settings
• Create tag qtwebkit-5.212... in qtwebkit-5.212 branch
• Push the tag, and wait until GitHub Action finishes - it should create draft of release with all artifacts
• Edit release description and publish it

6. After the release

• Send a message to announce the new release to webkit-qt@lists.webkit.org, maybe with a copy to interest@qt-project.org
• Update links in IRC topic

The end!