Release 14.6.7

Preparation

Preparation MR's should already be created
Ensure 14-6-stable-ee GitLab branch is green.
Ensure any backports targeting 14.6.7 are merged to their stable counter part
- GitLab Backports
- Omnibus
- CNG
- Gitaly
Perform automated merging into the preparation branches:
```
# In Slack
/chatops run release merge 14.6.7
```
Check for any MR's that might have been created that are targeting our preparation branch
- GitLab
- Omnibus
- CNG
- Gitaly

Backport request

If this patch release is part of a backport request, we will not be able to deploy the package to our release instance. Now is the time to kick off QA. Refer to the backport QA testing documentation to complete this task:

QA is complete, and sign-off by the current QA on-call is noted as a comment on this issue.
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 14.6.7.
- gitlab-org/gitlab!82084 (merged)
- gitlab-org/gitlab!82681 (merged)
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 14.6.7:

# In Slack:
/chatops run release tag 14.6.7

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!101307 (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.

Release

Publish the packages via ChatOps:
```
# In Slack:
/chatops run publish 14.6.7
```
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-14.6.7-ee.0.sles12.x86_64.rpm	sles/12.5
EE	gitlab-ee-14.6.7-ee.0.sles12.x86_64.rpm	sles/12.2
EE	gitlab-ee-14.6.7-ee.0.sles15.x86_64.rpm	opensuse/15.1
EE	gitlab-ee-14.6.7-ee.0.sles15.aarch64.rpm	opensuse/15.1
EE	gitlab-ee-14.6.7-ee.0.el8.x86_64.rpm	el/8
EE	gitlab-ee-14.6.7-ee.0.el7.x86_64.rpm	scientific/7
EE	gitlab-ee-14.6.7-ee.0.el8.aarch64.rpm	el/8
EE	gitlab-ee-14.6.7-ee.0.el7.x86_64.rpm	ol/7
EE	gitlab-ee-14.6.7-ee.0.el7.x86_64.rpm	el/7
EE	gitlab-ee_14.6.7-ee.0_amd64.deb	ubuntu/xenial
EE	gitlab-ee_14.6.7-ee.0_amd64.deb	ubuntu/bionic
EE	gitlab-ee_14.6.7-ee.0_amd64.deb	ubuntu/focal
EE	gitlab-ee_14.6.7-ee.0_amd64.deb	debian/stretch
EE	gitlab-ee_14.6.7-ee.0_amd64.deb	debian/buster
EE	gitlab-ee_14.6.7-ee.0_arm64.deb	ubuntu/focal
CE	gitlab-ce-14.6.7-ce.0.sles15.x86_64.rpm	opensuse/15.1
CE	gitlab-ce-14.6.7-ce.0.sles15.aarch64.rpm	opensuse/15.1
CE	gitlab-ce-14.6.7-ce.0.el7.x86_64.rpm	scientific/7
CE	gitlab-ce-14.6.7-ce.0.el8.x86_64.rpm	el/8
CE	gitlab-ce-14.6.7-ce.0.el8.aarch64.rpm	el/8
CE	gitlab-ce-14.6.7-ce.0.el7.x86_64.rpm	ol/7
CE	gitlab-ce-14.6.7-ce.0.el7.x86_64.rpm	el/7
CE	gitlab-ce_14.6.7-ce.0_amd64.deb	ubuntu/focal
CE	gitlab-ce_14.6.7-ce.0_arm64.deb	ubuntu/focal
CE	gitlab-ce_14.6.7-ce.0_amd64.deb	ubuntu/bionic
CE	gitlab-ce_14.6.7-ce.0_amd64.deb	debian/stretch
CE	gitlab-ce_14.6.7-ce.0_amd64.deb	ubuntu/xenial
CE	gitlab-ce_14.6.7-ce.0_amd64.deb	debian/buster

Verify that Docker images appear on hub.docker.com: EE / CE
Deploy the blog post
Create the 14.6.7 version on version.gitlab.com

References

gitlab.com

dev.gitlab.org

Release Certification

The release certification process may apply to this release. cc @gitlab-com/gl-security/federal-application-security

Edited Apr 01, 2022 by John Skarbek