| name: Release Process |
| description: Maintainers Only - Release Process |
| title: "Release Process for v7.x.x" |
| labels: [Issue-Meta, Needs-Triage] |
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| This template is for maintainers to create an issues to track the release process. |
| Please **only** use this template if you are a maintainer. |
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| - [ ] Verify that [`PowerShell-Native`](https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell-Native) has been updated / released as needed. |
| - [ ] Check for `PowerShellGet` and `PackageManagement` release plans. |
| - [ ] Start process to sync Azure DevOps artifacts feed such as modules and NuGet packages. |
| - [ ] Create a private branch named `release/v6.x.x` in Azure DevOps repository. |
| All release related changes should happen in this branch. |
| - [ ] Prepare packages |
| - [ ] Kick off coordinated build. |
| - [ ] Kick off Release pipeline. |
| - *These tasks are orchestrated by the release pipeline, but here as status to the community.* |
| - [ ] Prepare packages |
| - [ ] Sign the RPM package. |
| - [ ] Install and verify the packages. |
| - [ ] Trigger the docker staging builds (signing must be done). |
| - [ ] Create the release tag and push the tag to `PowerShell/PowerShell` repository. |
| - [ ] Run tests on all supported Linux distributions and publish results. |
| - [ ] Update documentation, and scripts. |
| - [ ] Update [CHANGELOG.md](../../CHANGELOG.md) with the finalized change log draft. |
| - [ ] Stage a PR to master to update other documents and |
| scripts to use the new package names, links, and `metadata.json`. |
| - [ ] For preview releases, |
| merge the release branch to GitHub `master` with a merge commit. |
| - [ ] For non-preview releases, |
| make sure all changes are either already in master or have a PR open. |
| - [ ] Delete the release branch. |
| - [ ] Trigger the Docker image release. |
| - [ ] Retain builds. |
| - [ ] Update https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/tree/master/3.0/sdk with new version and SHA hashes for global tool. NOTE: this link is broken! |
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