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How to Create a Release of GRPC Java (for Maintainers Only)

Build Environments

We deploy GRPC to Maven Central under the following systems:

Ubuntu 14.04 with Docker 13.03.0 that runs CentOS 7
Windows 7 64-bit with Visual Studio
Mac OS X 10.14.6

Other systems may also work, but we haven't verified them.

Common Variables

Many of the following commands expect release-specific variables to be set. Set them before continuing, and set them again when resuming.

MAJOR=1 MINOR=7 PATCH=0 # Set appropriately for new release
VERSION_FILES=(
  MODULE.bazel
  build.gradle
  core/src/main/java/io/grpc/internal/GrpcUtil.java
  examples/MODULE.bazel
  examples/build.gradle
  examples/pom.xml
  examples/android/clientcache/app/build.gradle
  examples/android/helloworld/app/build.gradle
  examples/android/routeguide/app/build.gradle
  examples/android/strictmode/app/build.gradle
  examples/example-*/build.gradle
  examples/example-*/pom.xml
  )

Branching the Release

The first step in the release process is to create a release branch and bump the SNAPSHOT version. Our release branches follow the naming convention of v<major>.<minor>.x, while the tags include the patch version v<major>.<minor>.<patch>. For example, the same branch v1.7.x would be used to create all v1.7 tags (e.g. v1.7.0, v1.7.1).

Review the issues in the current release milestone for issues that won't make the cut. Check if any of them can be closed. Be aware of the issues with the TODO:release blocker label. Consider reaching out to the assignee for the status update.

For master, change root build files to the next minor snapshot (e.g. 1.8.0-SNAPSHOT).

git checkout -b bump-version master
# Change version to next minor (and keep -SNAPSHOT)
sed -i 's/[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\(.*CURRENT_GRPC_VERSION\)/'$MAJOR.$((MINOR+1)).0'\1/' \
  "${VERSION_FILES[@]}"
sed -i s/$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH/$MAJOR.$((MINOR+1)).0/ \
  compiler/src/test{,Lite}/golden/Test{,Deprecated}Service.java.txt
./gradlew build
git commit -a -m "Start $MAJOR.$((MINOR+1)).0 development cycle"

Go through PR review and submit.

Create the release branch starting just before your commit and push it to GitHub:

git fetch upstream
git checkout -b v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x \
  $(git log --pretty=format:%H --grep "^Start $MAJOR.$((MINOR+1)).0 development cycle$" upstream/master)^
git push upstream v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x

Continue with Google-internal steps at go/grpc-java/releasing, but stop before Auto releasing using kokoro.
Create a milestone for the next release.
Move items out of the release milestone that didn't make the cut. Issues that may be backported should stay in the release milestone. Treat issues with the 'release blocker' label with special care.

Begin compiling release notes. This produces a starting point:

echo "## gRPC Java $MAJOR.$MINOR.0 Release Notes" && echo && \
  git shortlog -e --format='%s (%h)' "$(git merge-base upstream/v$MAJOR.$((MINOR-1)).x upstream/v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x)"..upstream/v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x | cat && \
  echo && echo && echo "Backported commits in previous release:" && \
  git log --oneline "$(git merge-base v$MAJOR.$((MINOR-1)).0 upstream/v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x)"..v$MAJOR.$((MINOR-1)).0^

Tagging the Release

Verify there are no open issues in the release milestone. Open issues should either be deferred or resolved and the fix backported. Verify there are no TODO:release blocker nor TODO:backport issues (open or closed), or that they are tracking an issue for a different branch.
Ensure that the Google-internal steps
at go/grpc-java/releasing#before-tagging-a-release are completed.

For vMajor.Minor.x branch, change README.md to refer to the next release version. Also update the version numbers for protoc if the protobuf library version was updated since the last release.

git checkout v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x
git pull upstream v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x
git checkout -b release-v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH

# Bump documented gRPC versions.
# Also update protoc version to match protobuf version in gradle/libs.versions.toml.
${EDITOR:-nano -w} README.md

git commit -a -m "Update README etc to reference $MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH"

Change root build files to remove "-SNAPSHOT" for the next release version (e.g. 0.7.0). Commit the result and make a tag:

# Change version to remove -SNAPSHOT
sed -i 's/-SNAPSHOT\(.*CURRENT_GRPC_VERSION\)/\1/' "${VERSION_FILES[@]}"
sed -i s/-SNAPSHOT// compiler/src/test{,Lite}/golden/Test{,Deprecated}Service.java.txt
./gradlew build
git commit -a -m "Bump version to $MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH"
git tag -a v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH -m "Version $MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH"

Change root build files to the next snapshot version (e.g. 0.7.1-SNAPSHOT). Commit the result:

# Change version to next patch and add -SNAPSHOT
sed -i 's/[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\(.*CURRENT_GRPC_VERSION\)/'$MAJOR.$MINOR.$((PATCH+1))-SNAPSHOT'\1/' \
  "${VERSION_FILES[@]}"
sed -i s/$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH/$MAJOR.$MINOR.$((PATCH+1))-SNAPSHOT/ \
  compiler/src/test{,Lite}/golden/Test{,Deprecated}Service.java.txt
./gradlew build
git commit -a -m "Bump version to $MAJOR.$MINOR.$((PATCH+1))-SNAPSHOT"

Go through PR review and push the release tag and updated release branch to GitHub (DO NOT click the merge button on the GitHub page):

git checkout v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x
git merge --ff-only release-v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH
git push upstream v$MAJOR.$MINOR.x
git push upstream v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH

Close the release milestone.
Trigger build as described in "Auto releasing using kokoro" at go/grpc-java/releasing.

It runs three jobs on Kokoro, one on each platform. See their scripts: linux_artifacts.sh, windows.bat, and macos.sh. The mvn-artifacts/ outputs of each script is combined into a single folder and then processed by upload_artifacts.sh, which signs the files and uploads to Sonatype.
Once all of the artifacts have been pushed to the staging repository, the repository should have been closed by upload_artifacts.sh. Closing triggers several sanity checks on the repository. If this completes successfully, the repository can then be released, which will begin the process of pushing the new artifacts to Maven Central (the staging repository will be destroyed in the process). You can see the complete process for releasing to Maven Central on the OSSRH site.

We have containers for each release to detect compatibility regressions with old releases. Generate one for the new release by following the GCR image generation instructions. Summary:

# If you haven't previously configured docker:
gcloud auth configure-docker

# In main grpc repo, add the new version to matrix
${EDITOR:-nano -w} tools/interop_matrix/client_matrix.py
tools/interop_matrix/create_matrix_images.py --git_checkout --release=v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH \
    --upload_images --language java
docker pull gcr.io/grpc-testing/grpc_interop_java:v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH
docker_image=gcr.io/grpc-testing/grpc_interop_java:v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH \
    tools/interop_matrix/testcases/java__master

# Commit the changes
git commit --all -m "[interop] Add grpc-java $MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH to client_matrix.py"

# Create a PR with the `release notes: no` label and run ad-hoc test against your PR

Update gh-pages with the new Javadoc. Generally the file is on repo1 15 minutes after publishing:

git checkout gh-pages
git pull --ff-only upstream gh-pages
rm -r javadoc/
wget -O grpc-all-javadoc.jar "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-all/$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH/grpc-all-$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH-javadoc.jar"
unzip -d javadoc grpc-all-javadoc.jar
patch -p1 < ga.patch
rm grpc-all-javadoc.jar
rm -r javadoc/META-INF/
git add -A javadoc
git commit -m "Javadoc for $MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH"
git push upstream gh-pages

Verify the current version is live on grpc.io.

Add Release Notes for the new tag. Make sure that any backports are reflected in the release notes.
Notify the Community. Post a release announcement to grpc-io (grpc-io@googlegroups.com) with the title gRPC-Java v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH Released. The email content should link to the GitHub release notes and include a copy of them.
Update README.md. Cherry-pick the commit that updated the README.md into the master branch.
```
git checkout -b bump-readme master
git cherry-pick v$MAJOR.$MINOR.$PATCH^
git push --set-upstream origin bump-readme
```
Create a PR and go through the review process
Update version referenced by tutorials. Update params.grpc_vers.java in config.yaml of the grpc.io repository. Create a PR and go through the review process.

Post-release upgrades

Upgrade dependencies after the release so they can be well-tested before the next release.

Upgrade the Gradle plugins in settings.gradle and the Gradle version in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties. Make sure to read the release notes for each dependency upgraded. Test by doing a regular build.

Upgrade the regular dependencies in gradle/libs.versions.toml, except for Netty and netty-tcnative. To find available upgrades:

./gradlew checkForUpdates

Test by doing a regular build. For each step, if a dependency cannot be upgraded, add a comment. Create issues in other projects for breakages, and in gRPC for things that will need a migration effort.

When happy with the dependency upgrades, update the versions in MODULE.bazel, repositories.bzl, and the various pom.xml and build.gradle files in examples/.

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