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Releasing ========= This describes for the maintainers of RGBDS how to publish a new release on GitHub. 1. Update, commit, and push `include/version.h <include/version.h>`__ with values for ``PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR``, ``PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR``, ``PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCH``, and ``PACKAGE_VERSION_RC``. Only define ``PACKAGE_VERSION_RC`` if you are publishing a release candidate! You can use ``git commit -m "Release <version>"`` and ``git push origin master``. 2. Create a Git tag formatted as ``v<MAJOR>.<MINOR>.<PATCH>``, or ``v<MAJOR>.<MINOR>.<PATCH>-rc<RC>`` for a release candidate. ``MAJOR``, ``MINOR``, ``PATCH``, and ``RC`` should match their values from `include/version.h <include/version.h>`__. You can use ``git tag <tag>``. 3. Push the tag to GitHub. You can use ``git push origin <tag>``. GitHub Actions will run the `create-release-artifacts.yaml <.github/workflows/create-release-artifacts.yaml>`__ workflow to detect the tag starting with "``v[0-9]``" and automatically do the following: 1. Build 32-bit and 64-bit RGBDS binaries for Windows with ``cmake``. 2. Package the binaries into zip files. 3. Package the source code into a tar.gz file with ``make dist``. 4. Create a draft GitHub release for the tag, attaching the three packaged files. It will be a prerelease if the tag contains "``-rc``". If an error occurred in the above steps, delete the tag and restart the procedure. You can use ``git push --delete origin <tag>`` and ``git tag --delete <tag>``. 4. GitHub Actions will run the `create-release-docs.yml <.github/workflows/create-release-docs.yml>`__ workflow to add the release documentation to `rgbds-www <https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds-www>`__. For a release candidate, which creates a prerelease, you will have to take these steps yourself. 1. Clone `rgbds-www <https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds-www>`__. You can use ``git clone https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds-www.git``. 2. Make sure that you have installed ``groff`` and ``mandoc``. You will need ``mandoc`` 1.14.5 or later to support ``-O toc``. 3. Run ``.github/actions/get-pages.sh -r <path/to/rgbds-www> <tag>``. This will render the RGBDS documentation as HTML and PDF and copy it to ``rgbds-www``. If you do not have ``groff`` installed, you can change ``groff -Tpdf -mdoc -wall`` to ``mandoc -Tpdf -I os=Linux`` in `.github/actions/get-pages.sh <.github/actions/get-pages.sh>`__ and it will suffice. 4. Commit and push the documentation. You can use ``git commit -m "Create RGBDS <tag> documentation"`` and ``git push origin master`` (within the ``rgbds-www`` directory, not RGBDS). 5. Write a changelog in the GitHub draft release. 6. Click the "Publish release" button to publish it!