Release Procedure

This is a checklist for how to perform a release of TinyGo.

• Update CHANGELOG.md

• Update version

• Merge dev branch to release branch

• Create draft release using Github UI with tag for release branch.

• Upload binaries for 64-bit Linux and Darwin

• Upload AMD DEB file

• Upload ARM binaries for 32-bit Linux and DEB

• Upload Windows binary file downloaded from Github

• Publish release using Github UI

• Update Homebrew recipe https://github.com/tinygo-org/homebrew-tools

• Update Docker container for release build https://github.com/tinygo-org/docker

• Update documentation to match the latest release following the changelog

• Update TinyGo Playground https://github.com/tinygo-org/playground

• Update Fedora package repo https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/tinygo update or message @QuLogic

• Update installation links in the documentation

• Update Arch package update or message @johanbrandhorst for https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tinygo-bin/

• Close all open issues tagged with the label next-release and remove the label from each of them when closing.

• Update ecosystem packages

  • Update drivers
  • Update bluetooth
  • Update tinyfs
  • Update tinyterm
  • Update tinydraw
  • Update tinyfont

• After the release

  • Update goenv/version.go