7.7 Release

[joncameron]

Release Checklist

Code Changes

• Update code files with version number Bump version number to prepare for release #5677
• Update license headers Update License Headers #5647
• Tag dependency repos Update Gem File and Tag Dependency Repos #5649
• Update gemfile to point to those tags Update Gem File and Tag Dependency Repos #5649
• Merge develop into staging Avalon 7.7 RC 1 #5662 Prep for 7.7 release #5678
• Merge staging into main Release 7.7! 🎉  #5683

Application Testing

• Testing (after merge to staging)

Documentation

• Update Known Issues documentation page

• Update configuration documentation (any new config in 7.7?)

• Update current version number on the documentation wiki

• Update wiki with release notes (once the release is published on Github)

• Update metadata documentation with series info (https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AVALON/pages/1957954564/Metadata+Fields)

• Add note to Accessibility page that Avalon application is compliant with WCAG A and AA

• Test - does Series need to be added to batch manifest (update batch manifest if so)

• Review Ramp documentation (in Github repo wiki).

• Update transcript/supplemental file feature documentation - machine-generated transcripts and multiple captions

• Create and Write Upgrade Page (7.6 -> 7.7) 7.7 Upgrade Documentation #5648

Release and Documentation

• Write a draft of release notes on Github
• Publish release in Github (create tag as well, if the release is not already tagged) https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases
• put link in release notes to Github-provided changelog (i.e. v.7.6...v7.7)
• Build and push updated docker images (may already happen via bamboo CI process)
• Update avalon-docker to point at new release docker tag and github tag; update solr service (tag, command, and storage volume to bind mount) Update For 7.7 Release avalon-docker#76
• Rebuild develop from main (our git flow)
• Deploy release to demo.avalonmediasystem.org - Upgrade Demo Site to 7.7 #5700

Website and Outreach

• Publish blog post announcing the release
• Update homepage with blog post for release announcement
• Update homepage with the updated version and documentation links
• Put announcement on Twitter
• Put announcement on Facebook
• Send announcement email to Samvera community mailing lists
• Send announcement to avalon-l mailing list
• Publicize in appropriate Slack channels

Included PRs

• Everything in current develop branch

[joncameron]

Docker compose tag is currently to 7.x; could be an issue if people update their containers and get the latest release by default. More specific tags in the docker-compose file could help this.