RELEASING.md

Volt Test Container - Release Instructions

Release Process

1. Create a release branch (skip if doing a patch release)

   git checkout main
   git pull
   git checkout -b release-1.8.x

2. Set the version (without -SNAPSHOT)

Since this project has 4 modules and a parent pom.xml, the easiest way is using the mvn versions command:

```sh
mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=1.8.0
mvn versions:commit
```

Check if you want to update the versions of any of the dependencies

• In the top-level pom.xml:
  • set volt-procedure-api.version property to latest published release, e.g. 15.0.0
  • set voltdbclient.version to the latest published release, e.g. 15.0.0

3. Manually build & test (set path to your VoltDB license)

   export VOLTDB_LICENSE=~/license.xml
   mvn clean install

4. Commit this change and push to the branch.

   git add pom.xml */pom.xml
   git commit -m "Setting version to 1.8.0"
   git push -u origin release-1.8.x

5. Create the release tag

   git tag -a v1.8.0 -m "Tagging v1.8.0 release"
   git push origin v1.8.0

6. Run the Release job in Jenkins

   • TAG: v1.5.0

7. Login to Sonatype, verify the artifact is Validated, then click Publish

After Release

To set things up for the next releases:

• In the main branch, set the version to the next planned release, which may be the next major or minor version.

  mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=1.9.0-SNAPSHOT
  mvn versions:commit