Doing a GeoNetwork release¶

This section documents the steps followed by the development team to do a new release.

Once the release branch has been thoroughly tested and is stable a release can be made.

Get the branch

versionbranch=3.0.x
version=3.0.0
minorversion=0
newversion=$version-$minorversion
currentversion=3.0.0-SNAPSHOT
previousversion=2.10.x
modules=( "geoserver" "e2e-tests" )
git clone --recursive https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork.git \
          geonetwork-$versionbranch
cd geonetwork-$versionbranch

Create or move to the branch for the version

# Create it if it does not exist yet
git checkout -b $versionbranch origin/develop

# Move into it if it exist
git checkout $versionbranch

Update version number

./update-version.sh $currentversion $newversion

Build the new release

mvn clean install -DskipTests -Pwith-doc

Create the installer

cd installer
ant
cd ..

Test the installer

cd geonetwork-$version
java -jar geonetwork-$newversion/geonetwork-install-$newversion.jar

# Generate list of changes

cat <<EOF > docs/changes$newversion.txt
================================================================================
===
=== GeoNetwork $version: List of changes
===
================================================================================
EOF
git log --pretty='format:- %s' origin/$previousversion... >> docs/changes$newversion.txt

Commit the new version (in submodule first and then in the main module)

cd geoserver
git add .
git commit -m "Update version to $newversion"
cd ..
git add .
git commit -m "Update version to $newversion"

Tag the release

git tag -a $version -m "Tag for $version release"
git push origin $version

Set version number to SNAPSHOT

./update-version.sh $newversion $version-SNAPSHOT
git add .
git commit -m "Update version to $version-SNAPSHOT"
git push origin $versionbranch

Publish in sourceforge

sftp $sourceforge_username,geonetwork@frs.sourceforge.net
# For stable release
cd /home/frs/project/g/ge/geonetwork/GeoNetwork_opensource
# or for RC release
cd /home/frs/project/g/ge/geonetwork/cd GeoNetwork_unstable_development_versions/
mkdir 3.0.0
cd 3.0.0
put docs/changes$newversion.txt
put geonetwork*/*.jar
put web/target/geonetwork.war