Release Checklist

Pre-Release

• Update translation po files from Launchpad account.

• Changelog is updated with relevant commits and release date is added.

• Docs release notes are updated.

• Tag release in git and push upstream e.g.

  git tag -a deluge-2.0.0 -m "Deluge 2.0.0 Release"
  

Release

• Create source and wheel distributions:

  python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
  

• Upload to PyPi (currently only accepts tar.gz):

  twine upload dist/deluge-2.0.0.tar.gz dist/deluge-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
  

• Calculate sha256sum for each file e.g.

  cd dist; sha256sum deluge-2.0.0.tar.xz > deluge-2.0.0.tar.xz.sha256
  

• Upload source tarballs and packages to download.deluge-torrent.org.

  • Ensure file permissions are global readable: 0644

  • Sub-directories correspond to major.minor version e.g. all 2.0.x patch releases are stored in source/2.0.

  • Change release version in version files.

  • Run trigger-deluge to sync OSUOSL ftp site.

• Create packages (Ubuntu, Windows, OSX).

  • Ubuntu: https://code.launchpad.net/~deluge-team/+recipe/stable-releases

Post-Release

• Update with version, hashes and release notes:

  • Publish docs on ReadTheDocs.

  • Forum announcement.

  • IRC welcome message.

  • Wikipedia

• Close Trac milestone and add new milestone version for future tickets.

• Ensure all stable branch commits are also applied to development branch.