Release Process

Attention

Before MAJOR or MINOR releases:

  • Review deprecation notes (eg search for “deprecated”) and remove deprecated features as appropriate
  • Squash migrations (ONLY on unreleased migrations) - see below

Squash migrations

If there’s more than one unreleased migration on master consider squashing them with squashmigrations, immediately before tagging the new release:

  • Create a new squashed migration with ./manage.py squashmigrations (only squash migrations that have never been in a tagged release)
  • Commit the squashed migration on master with a commit message like “Squash migrations” (this will allow users who running master to safely upgrade)
  • Then transition the squashed migration to a normal migration as per Django:
    • Delete all the migration files it replaces
    • Update all migrations that depend on the deleted migrations to depend on the squashed migration instead
    • Remove the replaces attribute in the Migration class of the squashed migration (this is how Django tells that it is a squashed migration)
  • Commit these changes to master with a message like “Transition squashed migration to normal migration”
  • Then do the normal release process - bump version as another commit and tag the release

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#migration-squashing

Prepare changes for the release commit

  • Choose your version number (using https://semver.org/ )
    • if there’s a new migration, it should be a MAJOR.0.0 or MAJOR.MINOR.0 version.
  • Review and update HISTORY.rst
    • Add a section for this release version
    • Set date on this release version
    • Check that summary of feature/fixes is since the last release is up to date
  • Update package version number in setup.cfg
  • Review and update supported API version in README.rst
    (this is the most recent Stripe account version tested against, not DEFAULT_STRIPE_API_VERSION)
  • git add to stage these changes

Create signed release commit tag

Note

Before doing this you should have a GPG key set up on github

If you don’t have a GPG key already, one method is via https://keybase.io/ , and then add it to your github profile.

  • Create a release tag with the above staged changes (where $VERSION is the version number to be released:

    $ git commit -m "Release $VERSION"
    $ git tag -fsm "Release $VERSION" $VERSION
    

This can be expressed as a bash function as follows:

git_release() { git commit -m "Release $1" && git tag -fsm "Release $1" $1; }
  • Push the commit and tag:

    $ git push --follow-tags
    

Update/create stable branch

Push these changes to the appropriate stable/MAJOR.MINOR version branch (eg stable/2.0) if they’re not already - note that this will trigger the readthedocs build

Configure readthedocs

If this is this is a new stable branch then do the following on https://readthedocs.org/dashboard/dj-stripe/versions/

  • Find the new stable/MAJOR.MINOR branch name and mark it as active (and then save)
  • Change the default version to this new branch