radicle-explorer/RELEASE.md

Release Checklist

Note: We release every second Thursday, before the end of the cycle.

• Bump the minor version in crates/radicle-tauri/tauri.conf.json.

• Update CHANGELOG.md — only include changes relevant to users.

• Create a version bump patch, push to CI, and request a review.

  • The commit message should start with Release followed by v<version_number>.

• Wait for CI to pass and get peer approval.

• Build the macOS app locally: npm run tauri build.

  • Make sure to clean any transient dependencies with cargo clean && rm -rf node_modules before building.

• Upload the macOS build to MinIO in the same folder as the latest Linux build.

• Update Arch Linux package info

  • Update pkgver in arch/radicle-desktop/PKGBUILD to match the release version

  • Update _commit in arch/radicle-desktop/PKGBUILD to the release commit created above.

  • Regenerate .SRCINFO with

    cd arch && ./generate-srcinfo.sh
    

  • Create a patch with the changes and wait for CI to pass

• Publish the Arch package by pushing changes to the Arch User Repository:

  cd arch && ./publish.sh "Release vX.Y.Z"
  

  You’ll get a chance to review the changes. You need to be a maintainer of the AUR package to push.

• Verify the Arch package version on the AUR.

• Announce the release on Zulip, following the previous announcement format.

• Resolve the previous release topic on Zulip.