Apache Tomcat Release Process
Introduction
This is written primarily for Apache Tomcat release managers although it may also be of interest to anyone looking to validate and/or replicate the release process. This page uses Tomcat 7 as an example but the same process applies to later versions as well. Note that earlier versions have a slightly different, more complex release process.
Pre-requisites
- A subversion client installed and on your path
- Apache Ant installed and on your path (see BUILDING.txt in the root of the svn repo for version requirements)
- The latest release of the minimum Java version that the Tomcat version runs on installed and on your path
- The ability to run Windows binaries (to build the Windows installer)
- A reasonable internet connection (you will need to upload ~100MB)
Create the tag
The aim is to create a copy of the current trunk but without the "-dev" appended to the end of the version number.
- Perform an svn checkout of tc7.0.x/trunk (e.g. to 7.0.x-release)
- Edit 7.0.x-release/build.properties and change the line
version.suffix=-devtoversion.suffix= svn cp . https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/tags/TOMCAT_7_0_XX- Check the diff mailed to the dev list
I found it simplest to keep this checkout with the modified build.properties.default and just do an svn up prior to each tag. I only used the checkout for tagging to ensure no other edits found their way into the tag.
Build the release
TBD
Upload the release
TBD
Generate the Maven artifacts
TBD
Call a vote
TBD
If the vote passes=
TBD