Prepare release 2.8.0.0

[wz1000]

Release checklist

• check ghcup supports new GHC releases if any
• set the supported GHCs in workflow file .github/workflows/release.yaml
  • There is currently a list of GHC versions for each major platform. Search for ghc: [ to find all lists.
  • Look for TODO: to find locations that require extra care for GHC versions.
• check all plugins still work if release includes code changes
• bump package versions in all *.cabal files (same version as hls)
  • HLS uses lockstep versioning. The core packages and all plugins use the same version number, and only support exactly this version.
    • Exceptions:
      • hie-compat requires no automatic version bump.
      • shake-bench is an internal testing tool, not exposed to the outside world. Thus, no version bump required for releases.
  • For updating cabal files, the following script can be used:

    • ./release/update_versions.sh <OLD_VERSION> <NEW_VERSION>

    • It still requires manual verification and review
• generate and update changelog
  • Generate a ChangeLog via ./GenChangelogs.hs <api-key> <tag>
    • <tag> is the git tag you want to generate the ChangeLog from.
    • <api-key> is a github access key: https://github.com/settings/tokens
• create release branch as wip/<version>
  • git switch -c wip/<version>
• create release tag as <version>
  • git tag <version>
• trigger release pipeline by pushing the tag
  • this creates a draft release
  • git push <remote> <version>
• run sh scripts/release/download-gh-artifacts.sh <version> <your-gpg-email>
  • downloads artifacts to gh-release-artifacts/haskell-language-server-<version>/
  • also downloads FreeBSD bindist from circle CI
  • adds signatures
• upload artifacts to downloads.haskell.org from gh-release-artifacts/haskell-language-server-<version>/
  • You require sftp access, contact wz1000, bgamari or chreekat
  • cd gh-release-artifacts/haskell-language-server-<version>
  • SIGNING_KEY=... ../../release/upload.sh upload
    • Your SIGNING_KEY can be obtained with gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long
  • Afterwards, the artifacts are available at: https://downloads.haskell.org/~hls/haskell-language-server-<version>/
  • Run SIGNING_KEY=... ../../release/upload.sh purge_all to remove CDN caches
• create PR to ghcup-metadata
  • update ghcup-vanilla-0.0.8.yaml and ghcup-vanilla-0.0.7.yaml
    • can use sh scripts/release/create-yaml-snippet.sh <version> to generate a snippet that can be manually inserted into the yaml files
  • update hls-metadata-0.0.1.json Currently unnecessary, GHCup builds its own HLS binaries and updates that file.
    • utilize cabal run ghcup-gen -- generate-hls-ghcs -f ghcup-0.0.7.yaml --format json --stdout in the root of ghcup-metadata repository
  • Be sure to mark the correct latest version and add the 'recommended' tag to the latest release.
• get sign-off on release
  • from wz1000, michealpj, maerwald and fendor
• publish release on github
• upload hackage packages
  • requires credentials
• update https://haskell-language-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/support/ghc-version-support.html#current-ghc-version-support-status
• Supported tools table needs to be updated:
  • https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/install/#supported-platforms
  • https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-hs/blob/master/docs/install.md#supported-platforms
  • https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/blob/44c6e2b5d0fcae15abeffff03e87544edf76dd7a/ghcup-gen/Main.hs#L67
• post release on discourse and reddit
• merge release PR to master or forward port relevant changes