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OpenFAST release process

Prep

pull request

  1. Create release changelog.md
  2. Post PR with contents of the changelog/release notes
  3. Get reviews and address all issues

PR branch updates

  1. checkout branch to merge in and verify builds on VS if any changes for VS or new files added
  2. Update the documentation version in docs/conf.py
  3. Update the versions in docs/source/user/api_change.rst
  4. Verify readthedocs builds correctly
  5. Update openfast_io/pyproject.toml

Posting the release

r-test

  1. Merge and add annotated tag
  2. Update pointer on main OF repository (not always necessary)

Main repository

  1. Merge PR
  2. Create release with new tag
    • Copy Changelog section down from the changlog.md file to release notes
    • add short intro section at top with 2 sentence synopsis (see prior release for this)
    • copy Precompiled Windows Binaries section from prior release, and update as needed into the release notes
    • check the create discussion box
    • Post
  3. delete rc- branch if merging from one

Windows executables build and upload

After posting and tagging release

  1. Pull main and tags

    • git fetch --tags OpenFAST
    • git fetch OpenFAST main:main
    • git checkout main

  2. Delete vs-build and checkout again

    • rm -rf vs-build
    • git checkout vs-build

  3. Set a couple of VS files to not track changes on files that VS wants to update Windows related stuff in

    git update-index --assume-unchanged vs-build/MAPlib/MAP_dll.vcxproj vs-uild/Registry/FAST_Registry.vcxproj

  4. Compile executables for Windows builds

    • Run one of the executables and check the version info. Muck about with VS if there is an issue.
    • Also run dumpbin.exe /dependents <exe>.exe to check static linking
    • NOTE: build the simulink last -- it messes up some things otherwise
    • AeroDyn_Driver_x64.exe
    • AeroDyn_Driver_x64_OpenMP.exe
    • AeroDyn_Inflow_C_Binding_x64.dll
    • AeroDyn_Inflow_C_Binding_x64_OpenMP.dll
    • BeamDyn_Driver_x64.exe
    • DISCON.dll (x64)
    • DISCON_ITIBarge.dll (x64)
    • DISCON_OC3Hywind.dll (x64)
    • DISCON_SC.dll (x64)
    • FAST.Farm_x64.exe
    • FAST.Farm_x64_OMP.exe
    • FAST_SFunc.mexw64 -- build from MATLAB
    • HydroDynDriver_x64.exe
    • HydroDyn_C_Binding_x64.dll
    • IfW_C_Binding_x64.dll
    • InflowWind_Driver_x64.exe
    • InflowWind_Driver_x64_OpenMP.exe
    • MoorDyn_Driver_x64.exe
    • MoorDyn_C_Binding_x64.dll
    • OpenFAST-Simulink_x64.dll -- change additional dependencies in the OpenFAST-Simulink project in FAST to point to correct install of MATLAB
    • openfast_x64.exe
    • SubDyn_x64.exe
    • Turbsim_x64.exe

  5. Upload all filesUnset the no tracking of files

    git ls-files -v | grep "^[a-z]"
git update-index --no-assume-unchanged <files-from-cmd-above>