Release Akka $VERSION$

Cutting the release

• Check that open PRs and issues assigned to the milestone are reasonable
• If PRs were merged after EU midnight, trigger the native-image tests and see that they are green.
• Update the version and change date in the LICENSE file.
• Update the Akka version in the samples to $VERSION$, otherwise the published zip files of the samples will have the old version.
• Create a new milestone for the next version
• Close the $VERSION$ milestone
• Make sure all important PRs have been merged
• Wait until main build finished after merging the latest PR
• Update the draft release with the next tag version v$VERSION$, title and release description. Use the Publish release button, which will create the tag.
• Check that GitHub Actions release build has executed successfully (GitHub Actions will start a CI build for the new tag and publish artifacts to https://repo.akka.io/maven)

Check availability

• Check API documentation
• Check reference documentation. Check that the reference docs were deployed and show a version warning (see section below on how to fix the version warning).
• Check the release on https://repo.akka.io/maven/com/typesafe/akka/akka-actor_2.13/$VERSION$/akka-actor_2.13-$VERSION$.pom

When everything is on https://repo.akka.io/maven

• Log into gustav.akka.io as akkarepo
  • If this updates the current version, run ./update-akka-current-version.sh $VERSION$
  • otherwise check changes and commit the new version to the local git repository

    cd ~/www
    git status
    git add libraries/akka-core/current libraries/akka-core/$VERSION$
    git add api/akka-core/current api/akka-core/$VERSION$
    git add japi/akka-core/current japi/akka-core/$VERSION$
    git commit -m "Akka core $VERSION$"
  • push changes to the remote git repository

    cd ~/www
    git push origin master
• If this updated 'current' docs - trigger a re-index of the docs for search through Run workflow for the scraper

Announcements

• Add a summary of relevant changes into release notes

For minor or major releases:

• Include noteworthy features and improvements in Akka umbrella release announcement at akka.io. Coordinate with PM and marketing.

Afterwards

• Update MiMa.latestPatchOf and PR that change (project/MiMa.scala)
• Update akka-dependencies bom and version for Akka module versions in akka-dependencies repo
• Update Akka Guide samples
• Update sbt new templates:
  • Akka Scala
  • Akka HTTP Scala
  • Akka gRPC Scala
• Close this issue