RELEASE.md

Release Process

1. Merge all PRs intended for the release.
2. Rebase latest remote main branch locally (git pull --rebase origin main).
3. Ensure all analysis checks and tests are passing (make all).
4. Open a new PR to update CHANGELOG (example)^1,2,3.
5. Merge CHANGELOG.
6. Rebase latest remote main branch locally (git pull --rebase origin main).
7. Tag a new release (tag=vX.Y.Z && git tag -s $tag -m "$tag" && git push origin $tag).
8. Copy/paste CHANGELOG into a new draft release⁴.
9. Publish draft release.
10. Communicate the release in the relevant Slack channels⁵.

Footnotes

1. We utilize semantic versioning and only include relevant/significant changes within the CHANGELOG.
2. Also bump ProjectVersion in fastly/client.go.
3. If a major version change, then update references to the version in go.mod and README.md.
4. Use the format: vX.Y.Z - yyyy-mm-dd for the release title.
5. Fastly make internal announcements in the Slack channels: #api-clients, #ecp-languages.