The Rust release process as of 1.3.0

The Rust release process is mostly in my head right now, so I took notes on how it went this time (1.3.0).

Channel promotion and new beta/stable builds (T-2 days)

Tag a new Cargo release that will be included with the new beta build (same tagging instructions as for Rust below). Then edit the cargo-revs.txt file in rust-packaging to update the Cargo version for the beta you’re about to build.

Promote beta to stable, then nightly to beta as follows. This is local, in your Rust repo, assuming you have push access to rust-lang.

$ git fetch rust-lang
$ git push rust-lang rust-lang/beta:stable -f
$ git push rust-lang rust-lang/master:beta -f

Manually start the beta-dist-rustc-trigger and stable-dist-rustc-trigger builds on buildbot.rust-lang.org. You’ve got around 48 hours to ensure that both these succeed.

The beta will deploy automatically, the stable not. Precisely, the stable build will upload docs to the s3 bin under doc/$version, but not doc/stable, and will not upload the bins anywhere, instead leaving them staged in the tmp/dist/packaging-stable/final subdirectory of the buildbot master.

Make and submit a patch against master that bumps the version number in mk/main.mk.

Prerelease testing (T-1 day)

Write a new blog post and update rust-www. Submit PRs for tomorrow.

Now upload the bins to an s3 staging directory for testing as follows. This happens on the buildmaster under the rustbuild user.

cd ~/rust-buildbot/master/tmp/dist/packaging-stable
# Move final staged bins to another directory. This clears out 'final' for the next release.
mv final final-1.3.0
# Upload final to s3 staging for testing
s3cmd del s3://static-rust-lang-org/dist/staging/ --recursive
s3cmd put -P ./final-1.3.0/* s3://static-rust-lang-org/dist/staging/dist/

Regenerate the index.

(cd && sh update-rust-dist-index.sh)

Post a message to irlo asking for testing. The index is http://static-rust-lang-org.s3.amazonaws.com/dist/staging/dist/index.html

Test multirust with

RUSTUP_DIST_SERVER=https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/staging multirust update stable

Release day

This is on the buildmaster again.

cd ~/rust-buildbot/master/tmp/dist/packaging-stable
# Sync docs from s3 versioned dir to local
mkdir ./doc-1.3.0
s3cmd sync -P s3://static-rust-lang-org/doc/1.3.0/ ./doc-1.3.0/
# Sync bins to s3 archives
s3cmd put -P ./final-1.3.0/* s3://static-rust-lang-org/dist/2015-09-17/
# Sync docs to s3 stable/
# Do this in a screen session in case you lose network access to AWS!
s3cmd sync -P ./doc-1.3.0/ s3://static-rust-lang-org/doc/stable/
# Sync bins to release channel
# Do this in a screen session in case you lose network access to AWS!
s3cmd put -P ./final-1.3.0/* s3://static-rust-lang-org/dist/
# Invalidate the CDN
sh ~/invalidate.sh

Next merge the website. It takes a while to deploy.

Merge blog post.

Locally, tag the new release and upload it. Use “x.y.z release” as the commit message.

$ git tag -u FA1BE5FE 1.3.0 $COMMIT_SHA
$ git push rust-lang 1.3.0

Run cargo publish for the Cargo tag created in the first step.

Bask in your success.

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Are the commits previously at these branches always reachable via git tags?

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Yes. All the stable and beta commits are reachable via the signed release tags created from the stable branch.

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This time (1.4) I'm uploading to s3://static-rust-lang-org/dist/staging/dist/. By putting it in a dist/ directory we can set RUSTUP_DIST_SERVER to https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/staging/ to test rustup.sh/multirust.

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