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Release process

This document includes the release instructions for:

  • Feature freeze phase
  • Publishing remixd to NPM
  • Publishing remix libraries to NPM
  • Updating Remix's live version on remix.ethereum.org
  • Updating Remix's alpha version on remix-alpha.ethereum.org
  • Updating Remix's beta version on remix-beta.ethereum.org

Feature Freeze

Once feature freeze is done, remix_beta should be updated latest to the master which will automatically update remix-beta.ethereum.org through a CI job.

Use this unified command:

  • yarn run updateBeta

or individually:

  • git checkout remix_beta
  • git pull origin remix_beta
  • git reset --hard <master-commit-hash> (master-commit-hash will be latest commit id from master branch)
  • git push -f origin remix_beta

Testing

Testing is performed after the Feature Freeze on remix-beta.ethereum.org. build-qa-doc.js script can be used to generate the list of QA tasks. Instructions to use the file are given in the file itself: https://github.com/ethereum/remix-project/blob/master/build-qa-doc.js#L18

Once ready to run, it can be run using the Node.js: node build-qa-doc.js

Find out the latest release highlights and update in releaseDetails.json file along with the version string. Also, update release blog link under moreLink field. This will set latest release details in the slide of Featured section.

Remix Project NPM packages publishing

Once testing is completed, release will start by publishing Remix NPM packages.

  • Make sure you are on master branch: git checkout master
  • Pull the latest: git pull origin master
  • Create a branch: git checkout -b bumpLibsVersion

remixd NPM release

yarn run publish:remixd

This command will ask for a new version.

Other libraries NPM release

yarn run publish:libs

This command uses lerna and is solely responsible for publishing all the remix libraries. It will ask for a new version of each library. Make sure you are logged in to NPM.

Once these command run successfully, the version for each remix library will be updated to latest in the libs' package.json file.

  • Create and merge bump PR to master

Remix IDE Release

👉 Make sure release highlights and blog link are updated to show them on Home tab, Featured section.

Part 1. Bump the version and update Beta

Make sure remix_beta is up-to-date with master branch:

Use this unified command:

  • yarn run updateBeta

or individually:

  • git checkout remix_beta
  • git pull origin remix_beta
  • git reset --hard <master-commit-hash>
  • git push -f origin remix_beta

Create bump version PR:

  • Create a new branch from remix_beta: git checkout -b bumpVersion
  • Update package.json version. Usually, you need to remove -dev from the version string
  • Create a PR with base branch as remix_beta
  • Merge PR to origin/remix_beta

Create git tag from beta branch:

Use this unified command:

  • yarn run publishTagfromBeta

or individually:

  • git checkout remix_beta
  • git pull origin remix_beta
  • Create tag: git tag v<version-number>, <version-number> should be same as in package.json of remix_beta branch
  • Push tag: git push --tags

Publish a new release on GitHub using created tag and generate automated changelog by selecting the appropriate previous tag

Part 2. Update the Remix Live

Updating the remix_live branch latest to the remix_beta runs the CircleCI build which updates liver version of Remix IDE on remix.ethereum.org

Use this unified command:

  • yarn run updateLive

or individually:

  • git checkout remix_live
  • git pull origin remix_live
  • git reset --hard <remix_beta-commit-hash> or <master-commit-hash> sometimes
  • git push -f origin remix_live

CircleCI will build automatically and remix.ethereum.org will be updated to the latest.

Part 3. Upload zip file in GitHub release

  • Once CI is successful for remix_live branch, Go to https://github.com/ethereum/remix-live
  • Download the zip file with the name starting with remix-
  • Upload the zip file in GitHub assets by editing the release for this version

Bump master branch

  • git checkout master
  • git pull origin master
  • Create a new branch from master: git checkout -b bumpDevVersion
  • Bump the package.json version, add the tag -dev if not already present.
  • Update new feature freeze date under freeze-date in .github/workflows/pr-reminder.yml file
  • Create and merge PR to master

Remix IDE Beta Release

  • git fetch origin master
  • git checkout origin/master
  • git checkout -b bumpVersion
  • update package.json version to the new version "vx.x.x-beta.1"
  • merge PR
  • git fetch origin master
  • git checkout origin/master
  • git tag v(version-number) (with "vx.x.x-beta.1")
  • git push --tags
  • github-changes -o ethereum -r remix-project -a --only-pulls --use-commit-body --only-merges --between-tags previous_version...next_version
  • publish a beta release in github using the changelog
  • drop zip file to the beta release (from https://github.com/ethereum/remix-live-alpha)

Remix IDE Alpha Release

remix-alpha.ethereum.org is automatically updated every time a commit is pushed to master branch