• Fork this gist and follow the instructions there.

Pre-flight

• Forks and local clones of denoland/deno, denoland/deno_std, denoland/dotland, denoland/deno_docker denoland/manual

During this process main branch (or any other branch that you're creating release from) should be frozen and no commits should land until the release is cut.

• Write a message in company's #cli channel: 🔒 deno and deno_std are now locked (<LINK TO THIS FORKED GIST GOES HERE>)

Patch release preparation

If you are cutting a patch release: First you need to sync commit to the relevant minor branch in the deno repo, so if you are cutting a v1.17.3 release you need to sync v1.17 branch.

To do that, you need to cherry-pick commits from the main branch to the v1.17 branch. For patch releases we want to cherry-pick all commits that do not add features to the CLI. This generally means to filter out feat commits but not necessarily (ex. feat(core): ...). Check what was the last commit on v1.17 branch before the previous release and start cherry-picking newer commits from the main.

Once all relevant commits are cherry-picked, push the branch to the upstream and verify on GitHub that everything looks correct.

• ⛔ DO NOT create a vx.xx.x-like branch! You are meant to cherry pick to a vx.xx branch. If you have accidentally created a vx.xx.x-like branch then delete it as tagging the CLI will fail otherwise.

• Unstable feat commits were merged.

• Internal API commits like feat(core) were merged.

Updating deno_std

• Go to the "version_bump" workflow in the deno_std repo's actions: https://github.com/denoland/deno_std/actions/workflows/version_bump.yml

  1. Click on the "Run workflow" button.
  2. For the kind of release, select "minor".
  3. Run the workflow.

• A PR will be automatically created. Follow the checklist in the PR, review it, and merge the PR.

  • ⛔ DO NOT create a release tag manually. That will automatically happen.
  Failure Steps
  1. Checkout the latest main.
  2. Manually run ./_tools/release/01_bump_version.ts --minor
     1. Ensure the version in version.ts is updated correctly.
     2. Ensure Releases.md is updated correctly.
     3. Ensure all the tests pass with the latest build (examine the repo for what the command is and run the local built deno binary)
  3. Open a PR with the changes and continue with the steps below.

• Wait for the CI run to complete which will automatically tag the repo and create a draft release.

  • Review the draft release and then publish it.
  Failure Steps
  1. Tag the repo manually in the format x.x.x
  2. Draft a new GH release by copying and pasting the release notes from Releases.md

Updating deno

Phase 1: Bumping versions

• After releasing deno_std, go to the "version_bump" workflow in the CLI repo's actions: https://github.com/denoland/deno/actions/workflows/version_bump.yml

  1. Click on the "Run workflow" button.
  2. In the drop down, select the minor branch if doing a patch release or the main branch if doing a minor release.
  3. For the kind of release, select either "patch", "minor", or "major".
  4. Run the workflow.

• Wait for the workflow to complete and for a pull request to be automatically opened. Review the pull request, make any necessary changes, and merge it.

  • ⛔ DO NOT create a release tag manually That will automatically happen.
  Failure Steps
  1. Checkout the branch the release is being made on.
  2. Manually run ./tools/release/01_bump_crate_versions.ts
     1. Ensure the crate versions were bumped correctly
     2. Ensure deno_std version was updated correctly in cli/deno_std.rs
     3. Ensure Releases.md was updated correctly
  3. Open a PR with the changes and continue with the steps below.

Phase 2: Publish

• Go to the "cargo_publish" workflow in the CLI repo's actions: https://github.com/denoland/deno/actions/workflows/cargo_publish.yml

  1. Run it on the same branch that you used before and wait for it to complete.
  Failure Steps
  1. The workflow was designed to be restartable. Try restarting it.
  2. If that doesn't work, then do the following:
     1. Checkout the branch the release is occurring on.
     2. If cargo publish hasn't completed then run ./tools/release/03_publish_crates.ts
        • Note that you will need access to crates.io so it might fail.
     3. If cargo publish succeeded and a release tag wasn't created, then manually create and push one for the release branch with a leading v.

• This CI run create a tag which triggers a second CI run that publishes the GitHub draft release. The CI pipeline will create a release draft on GitHub (https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases). Update the draft with the contents of Releases.md that you previously added.

• Upload Apple M1 build (deno-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip) to the release draft and to https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/dl.deno.land

  cargo build --release
  cd target/release
  zip -r deno-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip deno

• ⛔ Verify that:

  • There are 8 assets on the release draft.
  • There are 4 zip files for this version on dl.deno.land.
  • The aarch64 Mac build was built from the correct branch AFTER the version bump and has the same version as the release when doing deno -V (ask someone with an M1 Mac to verify this if you don't have one).

• Publish the release on Github

• Run the https://github.com/denoland/dotland/actions/workflows/update_versions.yml workflow.

  • This should open a PR. Review and merge it.
  Failure Steps
  1. Update https://github.com/denoland/dotland/blob/main/versions.json manually.
  2. Open a PR and merge.

• Push a new tag to manual. The tag must match the CLI tag; you don't need to create dedicated commit for that purpose, it's enough to tag the latest commit in that repo.

• For minor releases: make sure https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data has been updated to reflect Web API changes in this release. Usually done ahead of time by @lucacasonato.

• If you are cutting a patch release: a PR should have been automatically opened that forwards the release commit back to main. If so, merge it. If not and it failed, please manually create one.

Updating deno.land/api & deno.land/std symbols

This should occur after the Deno CLI & std are fully published, as the build script generates the symbols based on the latest tags.

• Run the release workflow in the apiland_scripts repo on the main branch: https://github.com/denoland/apiland_scripts/actions/workflows/release.yml Failure Steps
  1. Clone deno/apliland_scripts.
  2. Execute deno task release.

Updating deno_docker

• Open a PR on the deno_docker repo that bumps the Deno version in all Dockerfiles, the README and the example Dockerfile. Get it reviewed and merge it.
• Create a tag with the version number (without v prefix).

All done!

• Write a message in company's #general channel: 🔓 deno and deno_std are now unlocked.