Release 12.9.6
Preparation
- Preparation MR's should already be created
- Ensure any backports targeting 12.9.6 are merged to their stable counter part
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Perform automated merging into the preparation branches: # In Slack /chatops run release merge 12.9.6
- Merge the preparation merge requests
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gitlab-org/gitlab
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gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab
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- Check the following list of critical issues/MRs which are to be included in
12.9.6
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REFERENCE_TO_MR_TO_PICK
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Ensure builds are green on Omnibus
Packaging
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Check if mirroring synced stable branches to dev. If the output is ✅ for every repo, we can proceed to tag.# In Slack /chatops run mirror status
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Tag 12.9.6
:# In Slack: /chatops run release tag 12.9.6
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While waiting for packages to build, now is a good time to prepare the blog post. Look at previous MRs for examples. => gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!48601 (closed) -
Check progress of EE packages build and CE packages build. - This might take a while (around 80 min).
- We only need the EE packages to finish to continue with next steps.
Deploy
For patch releases, the only available environment for deploys is pre.gitlab.com
. All GitLab Inc. team members can login to that installation using their email address (through google oauth).
pre.gitlab.com
Deployments to pre.gitlab.com are performed automatically.
Instructions to manually deploy if required.
If you need to manually run a deployment, you can do so as follows:
# In Slack:
/chatops run deploy 12.9.6-ee.0 --pre
QA
The QA issue is created automatically, and linked as a related issue.
Instructions to manually generate QA issue if required.
If the QA task issue needs to be manually generated, you can do so as follows:
# In Slack, replacing LAST_DEPLOYED_VERSION with the appropriate value:
/chatops run release qa vLAST_DEPLOYED_VERSION v12.9.6
Release
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Publish the packages via ChatOps: # In Slack: /chatops run publish 12.9.6
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Verify that packages appear on packages.gitlab.com
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Verify that Docker images appear on hub.docker.com
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Create the 12.9.6
version on version.gitlab.com -
Deploy the blog post -
In the #content-updates
channel, share a link to the blog post::tada: GitLab 12.9.6 has been released: BLOG_POST_URL
References
gitlab.com
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/commits/12-9-stable
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/commits/12-9-stable-ee
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/commits/12-9-stable
dev.gitlab.org
Edited by Alessio Caiazza