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Release 14.4.3

Preparation

  • Preparation MR's should already be created
  • Ensure 14-4-stable-ee GitLab branch is green.
  • Ensure any backports targeting 14.4.3 are merged to their stable counter part
  • Perform automated merging into the preparation branches: 
    # In Slack
/chatops run release merge 14.4.3
  • Check for any MR's that might have been created that are targeting our preparation branch
  • QA is passing and/or signed-off by a Quality Engineer
  • Merge the preparation merge requests
    • gitlab-org/gitlab
    • gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab
    • gitlab-org/build/CNG
  • Check the following list of critical issues/MRs which are to be included in 14.4.3.
    • REFERENCE_TO_MR_TO_PICK
  • Ensure builds are green on Omnibus

Packaging

  • Check if mirroring synced stable branches to dev. If the output is ✅ for every repo, we can proceed to tag. Note. If GitLab Canonical to Security mirroring has diverged due to security merges this mirror is expected to show as a broken and can be safely ignored.

    # In Slack
/chatops run mirror status

  • Tag 14.4.3:

    # In Slack:
/chatops run release tag 14.4.3

  • 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!94714 (merged)

  • 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 release.gitlab.net. All GitLab Inc. team members can login to that installation using their email address (through google oauth).

Deployment to release.gitlab.net is not required if the patch release is not for the latest completed monthly release version. This is because release.gitlab.net will be on the latest monthly release, and deploying a patch of an older version will require rolling back release.gitlab.net.

release.gitlab.net

Deployments to release.gitlab.net 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 14.4.3-ee.0 --release

Release

  • Publish the packages via ChatOps: 
    # In Slack:
/chatops run publish 14.4.3
  • Verify that EE packages appear on packages.gitlab.com: EE (should contain 15 packages)
  • Verify that CE packages appear on packages.gitlab.com: CE (should contain 13 packages)
Package Names (expanded)
Edition Package Name Distro
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.sles12.x86_64.rpm sles/12.5
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.sles12.x86_64.rpm sles/12.2
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.sles15.x86_64.rpm opensuse/15.1
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.sles15.aarch64.rpm opensuse/15.1
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.el8.x86_64.rpm el/8
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.el7.x86_64.rpm scientific/7
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.el8.aarch64.rpm el/8
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.el7.x86_64.rpm ol/7
EE gitlab-ee-14.4.3-ee.0.el7.x86_64.rpm el/7
EE gitlab-ee_14.4.3-ee.0_amd64.deb ubuntu/xenial
EE gitlab-ee_14.4.3-ee.0_amd64.deb ubuntu/bionic
EE gitlab-ee_14.4.3-ee.0_amd64.deb ubuntu/focal
EE gitlab-ee_14.4.3-ee.0_amd64.deb debian/stretch
EE gitlab-ee_14.4.3-ee.0_amd64.deb debian/buster
EE gitlab-ee_14.4.3-ee.0_arm64.deb ubuntu/focal
 CE gitlab-ce-14.4.3-ce.0.sles15.x86_64.rpm opensuse/15.1
 CE gitlab-ce-14.4.3-ce.0.sles15.aarch64.rpm opensuse/15.1
 CE gitlab-ce-14.4.3-ce.0.el7.x86_64.rpm scientific/7
 CE gitlab-ce-14.4.3-ce.0.el8.x86_64.rpm el/8
 CE gitlab-ce-14.4.3-ce.0.el8.aarch64.rpm el/8
 CE gitlab-ce-14.4.3-ce.0.el7.x86_64.rpm ol/7
 CE gitlab-ce-14.4.3-ce.0.el7.x86_64.rpm el/7
 CE gitlab-ce_14.4.3-ce.0_amd64.deb ubuntu/focal
 CE gitlab-ce_14.4.3-ce.0_arm64.deb ubuntu/focal
 CE gitlab-ce_14.4.3-ce.0_amd64.deb ubuntu/bionic
 CE gitlab-ce_14.4.3-ce.0_amd64.deb debian/stretch
 CE gitlab-ce_14.4.3-ce.0_amd64.deb ubuntu/xenial
 CE gitlab-ce_14.4.3-ce.0_amd64.deb debian/buster
  • Verify that Docker images appear on hub.docker.com: EE / CE
  • Deploy the blog post
  • Create the 14.4.3 version on version.gitlab.com

References

gitlab.com

dev.gitlab.org

Edited by John Skarbek