PowerShell/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/Release_Process.md

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Release Process	Maintainers Only - Release Process	Release Process for v6.x.x	Issue-Meta

Release Process for v6.x.x

• Verify that 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 Dev Ops repository. All release related changes should happen in this branch.
• Prepare packages
  • Build release packages
  • Sign the MSI packages and RPM package.
  • Install and verify the packages.
  • Trigger the docker staging builds (signing must be done.)
• Run tests on all supported Linux distributions and publish results
• Update documentation, and scripts.
  • Update CHANGELOG.md with the finalized change log draft.
  • Update other documents and scripts to use the new package names, links, and metadata.json.
• Create NuGet packages and publish them to powershell-core feed.
• Run release build to publish Linux packages to Microsoft YUM/APT repositories.
• Create the release tag and push the tag to PowerShell/PowerShell repository.
• Run release build to create the draft and publish the release in Github.
• 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
• Delete the release branch.
• Trigger the docker image release.
• Test and publish NuGet packages on NuGet.org
• Retain builds.