Release 2.5.3

[johanandren]

Release Akka gRPC 2.5.3

Cutting the release

• Check that open PRs and issues assigned to the milestone are reasonable
• If PRs were merged after EU midnight, trigger the native-image tests and see that they are green.
• Update the Change date and version in the LICENSE file.
• Update the Akka gRPC version in the samples to 2.5.3, otherwise the published zip files of the samples will have the old version.
• Create a new milestone for the next version
• Close the 2.5.3 milestone
• Make sure all important PRs have been merged
• Wait until main build finished after merging the latest PR
• For recent dependency updates or changes on a minor release branch the Fossa validation can be triggered from the GitHub actions "Dependency License Scanning" (Manually choosing the release branch)
• Update the revision in Fossa in the Akka Group for the Akka umbrella version, e.g. 22.10. Note that the revisions for the release is updated by Akka Group > Projects > Edit.
• Update the draft release with the next tag version v2.5.3, title and release description. Use the Publish release button, which will create the tag.
• Check that GitHub Actions release build has executed successfully (GitHub Actions will start a CI build for the new tag and publish artifacts to https://repo.akka.io/maven)

Check availability

• Check API documentation
• Check reference documentation. Check that the reference docs were deployed and show a version warning (see section below on how to fix the version warning).
• Check the release on https://repo.akka.io/maven/com/lightbend/akka/grpc/akka-grpc-scalapb-protoc-plugin_2.12/2.5.3/akka-grpc-scalapb-protoc-plugin_2.12-2.5.3.pom

When everything is on https://repo.akka.io/maven

• Log into gustav.akka.io as akkarepo
  • If this updates the current version, run ./update-akka-grpc-current-version.sh 2.5.3
  • otherwise check changes and commit the new version to the local git repository

    cd ~/www
    git status
    git add libraries/akka-grpc/current libraries/akka-grpc/2.5.3
    git add api/akka-grpc/current api/akka-grpc/2.5.3
    git commit -m "Akka gRPC 2.5.3"
    

Announcements

For important patch releases, and only if critical issues have been fixed:

• Send a release notification to Lightbend discuss

For minor or major releases:

• Include noteworthy features and improvements in Akka umbrella release announcement at akka.io. Coordinate with PM and marketing.

Afterwards

• Update akka-dependencies bom and version for Akka module versions in akka-dependencies repo

• Update Akka Guide samples

• Update Akka Projection gRPC samples

• Update sbt new (g8) template:

  • Akka gRPC Scala

• Close this issue