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- After the final release candidate has returned from QA and is approved, verify the following:
- After the final release candidate has returned from QA and is approved, verify the following:
  - Tarballs have been updated with the correct naming conventions. 
   - BSP tarballs have been generated.
   - BSP tarballs have been generated.
  - rpm and deb directories have been removed.
  - Machines subdirectories have been cleaned up. (Symlinks removed, dupes deleted, etc.)
  - Eclipse plugins/archives have been published to http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/ and https://ep.yocto.io/.
  - ADT has been published, if applicable. (Deprecated with Yocto 2.0 release and later.)
  - md5sum file for the entire release has been generated.  
   - Release Notes have been created, finalized, and approved.
   - Release Notes have been created, finalized, and approved.
   - Release Notes have been signed.
   - Release Notes have been signed.
   - Repos have been tagged.
   - Repos have been tagged with correct commit and signature.  
  - Release and BSP pages have been created on yoctoproject.org website.
   - The README for each BSP has been checked and updated if necessary.
   - The README for each BSP has been checked and updated if necessary.
   - Documentation links have been created on yoctoproject.org website.
   - Artifacts correctly moved to https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/.
   - Update the release dates and QA link on website backend.
   - The kernel.org mirror sync has been triggered and completed successfully.
  - Download links have been tested.
  - The mirror sync has been triggered and completed successfully.
  - Update the idlebuild weekly build script to include any new branches
   - The release announcement has been sent to the appropriate mailing lists. (yocto and yocto-announce)
   - The release announcement has been sent to the appropriate mailing lists. (yocto and yocto-announce)
  - docs.yoctoproject.org updated correct dropdown version.

Latest revision as of 08:59, 6 October 2025

Major Release

- Week prior to build of release candidate 

 - Updates to the following packages will have occurred. DO NO PANIC, these come late in the release cycle
    - wic 
    - meta-yocto-bsp 
    - meta-yocto
    - linux-firmware 
    - bootloaders (grub, syslinux, u-boot, gummiboot, etc..) 
    - hwdata 
    - pciutils 
    - util-linux 
    - i2c-tools 
    - alsa 
    - graphics drivers 
    - cryptodev 
    - systemtap
    - perf
    - linux-yocto

- Prior to build of the first release candidate 

 -  Is DISTRO_VERSION updated in poky.conf?
 -  Is SDK_VERSION updated in poky.conf?
 -  Is SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS updated in poky.conf?
 -  Are yocto-docs merged to the release branch?
 -  Has bitbake -f -c distrodata universe been run?
 -  Has an updated distro_alias.inc patch been accepted?

- After the final release candidate has returned from QA and is approved, verify the following: 

 - BSP tarballs have been generated.
 - Release Notes have been created, finalized, and approved.
 - Release Notes have been signed.
 - Repos have been tagged with correct commit and signature. 
 - The README for each BSP has been checked and updated if necessary.
 - Artifacts correctly moved to https://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/.
 - The kernel.org mirror sync has been triggered and completed successfully.
 - The release announcement has been sent to the appropriate mailing lists. (yocto and yocto-announce)
 - docs.yoctoproject.org updated correct dropdown version.
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