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Releasing

The following steps outline the release process for both new minor versions (e.g. releasing the master branch as X.Y.0) and patch versions (e.g. releasing the vX.Y branch as X.Y.Z).

The command examples below assume that the canonical "mongodb" repository has the remote name "mongodb". You may need to adjust these commands if you've given the remote another name (e.g. "upstream"). The "origin" remote name was not used as it likely refers to your personal fork.

It helps to keep your own fork in sync with the "mongodb" repository (i.e. any branches and tags on the main repository should also exist in your fork). This is left as an exercise to the reader.

Ensure PHP version compatibility

Ensure that the library test suite completes on supported versions of PHP.

Transition JIRA issues and version

All issues associated with the release version should be in the "Closed" state and have a resolution of "Fixed". Issues with other resolutions (e.g. "Duplicate", "Works as Designed") should be removed from the release version so that they do not appear in the release notes.

Check the corresponding ".x" fix version to see if it contains any issues that are resolved as "Fixed" and should be included in this release version.

Update the version's release date and status from the Manage Versions page.

Update version info

The PHP library uses semantic versioning. Do not break backwards compatibility in a non-major release or your users will kill you.

Before proceeding, ensure that the master branch is up-to-date with all code changes in this maintenance branch. This is important because we will later merge the ensuing release commits up to master with --strategy=ours, which will ignore changes from the merged commits.

Update extension requirement

In composer.json, ensure that the version of ext-mongodb is correct for the library version being released.

Update CI matrices

This is especially important before releasing a new minor version.

If this is the first release of a minor version for the library, it is likely following an extension release. The vars for calling compile extension from build-extension.yml in the Evergreen configuration must be updated:

  • The stable task should specify no vars.
  • The lowest task should specify EXTENSION_VERSION with the version that was just released.
  • The next-stable task should specify EXTENSION_BRANCH with the branch that was just created.
  • The next-minor task should specify EXTENSION_BRANCH: master.

The DRIVER_VERSION environment variable for any GitHub Actions should also be set to stable.

After regenerating the Evergreen configuration, stage any modified files, commit, and push:

$ git commit -m "Update composer.json and CI matrices for X.Y.Z"
$ git push mongodb

Tag the release

Create a tag for the release and push:

$ git tag -a -m "Release X.Y.Z" X.Y.Z
$ git push mongodb --tags

Branch management

Creating a maintenance branch and updating master branch alias

After releasing a new major or minor version (e.g. 1.9.0), a maintenance branch (e.g. v1.9) should be created. Any development towards a patch release (e.g. 1.9.1) would then be done within that branch and any development for the next major or minor release can continue in master.

When work begins on a major new version, create a maintenance branch for the last minor version and update the extra.branch-alias.dev-master field in the master branch's composer.json file. For example, after branching v1.99, composer.json in the master branch may still read:

"branch-alias": {
    "dev-master": "1.x-dev"
}

The above would be changed to:

"branch-alias": {
    "dev-master": "2.x-dev"
}

Commit this change:

$ git commit -m "Master is now 1.10-dev" composer.json

After releasing a new minor version

After a new minor version is released (i.e. master was tagged), a maintenance branch should be created for future patch releases:

$ git checkout -b vX.Y
$ git push mongodb vX.Y

After releasing a patch version

If this was a patch release, the maintenance branch must be merged up to master:

$ git checkout master
$ git pull mongodb master
$ git merge vX.Y --strategy=ours
$ git push mongodb

The --strategy=ours option ensures that all changes from the merged commits will be ignored. This is OK because we previously ensured that the master branch was up-to-date with all code changes in this maintenance branch before tagging.

Publish release notes

The following template should be used for creating GitHub release notes via this form.

The PHP team is happy to announce that version X.Y.Z of the MongoDB PHP library is now available.

**Release Highlights**

<one or more paragraphs describing important changes in this release>

A complete list of resolved issues in this release may be found in [JIRA]($JIRA_URL).

**Documentation**

Documentation for this library may be found in the [PHP Library Manual](https://mongodb.com/docs/php-library/current/).

**Installation**

This library may be installed or upgraded with:

    composer require mongodb/mongodb:X.Y.Z

Installation instructions for the `mongodb` extension may be found in the [PHP.net documentation](https://php.net/manual/en/mongodb.installation.php).

The URL for the list of resolved JIRA issues will need to be updated with each release. You may obtain the list from this form.

If commits from community contributors were included in this release, append the following section:

**Thanks**

Thanks for our community contributors for this release:

 * [$CONTRIBUTOR_NAME](https://github.com/$GITHUB_USERNAME)

Release announcements should also be posted in the MongoDB Product & Driver Announcements: Driver Releases forum and shared on Twitter.

Documentation Updates for New Major and Minor Versions

New major and minor releases will also require documentation updates to other projects:

These tasks can be initiated prior to tagging a new release to ensure that the updated content becomes accessible soon after the release is published.