Merge #7881: Update release process

f154470 [contrib] Remove reference to sf and add doc to verify.sh (MarcoFalke)
182bec4 contrib: remove hardcoded version from verify.sh (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
c907f4d doc: Update release process (Wladimir J. van der Laan)

contrib/README.md

@@ -51,5 +51,5 @@ Test and Verify Tools
 ### [TestGen](/contrib/testgen) ###
 Utilities to generate test vectors for the data-driven Bitcoin tests.
 
-### [Verify SF Binaries](/contrib/verifysfbinaries) ###
-This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from SourceForge.
+### [Verify Binaries](/contrib/verifybinaries) ###
+This script attempts to download and verify the signature file SHA256SUMS.asc from bitcoin.org.

contrib/verifysfbinaries/README.md → contrib/verifybinaries/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
-### Verify Binaries ###
+### Verify Binaries
 This script attempts to download the signature file `SHA256SUMS.asc` from https://bitcoin.org.
 
 It first checks if the signature passes, and then downloads the files specified in the file, and checks if the hashes of these files match those that are specified in the signature file.
 
 The script returns 0 if everything passes the checks. It returns 1 if either the signature check or the hash check doesn't pass. If an error occurs the return value is 2.
+
+Usage:
+
+```sh
+./verify.sh bitcoin-core-0.11.2
+./verify.sh bitcoin-core-0.12.0
+```

contrib/verifysfbinaries/verify.sh → contrib/verifybinaries/verify.sh

@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ BASEDIR="https://bitcoin.org/bin/"
 VERSIONPREFIX="bitcoin-core-"
 RCVERSIONSTRING="rc"
 
-#this URL is used if a version number is not specified as an argument to the script
-SIGNATUREFILE="$BASEDIR""$VERSIONPREFIX""0.10.4/""$RCSUBDIR""$SIGNATUREFILENAME"
-
 if [ ! -d "$WORKINGDIR" ]; then
    mkdir "$WORKINGDIR"
 fi
@@ -53,7 +50,8 @@ if [ -n "$1" ]; then
 
    SIGNATUREFILE="$BASEDIR$SIGNATUREFILENAME"
 else
-   BASEDIR="${SIGNATUREFILE%/*}/"
+   echo "Error: need to specify a version on the command line"
+   exit 2
 fi
 
 #first we fetch the file containing the signature

doc/release-notes.md

@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
 (note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to
 release-notes at release time)
 
+Bitcoin Core version *version* is now available from:
+
+  <https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-*version*/>
+
+This is a new major version release, including new features, various bugfixes
+and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.
+
+Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:
+
+  <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues>
+
+To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:
+
+  <https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/>
+
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