create_new_release.md

Creating a new Release

Create the artifact

• Update versions in package.json and manifest.json (Typically, you just do this on main as long as we don't have another workflow)
• Run pnpm install in order to update the package.json version in pnpm-lock.yaml as well
• Create the *.xpi file: pnpm run ship

Test Release Version

Since E2E tests would be tough to do, this will be a manual task for the foreseeable future:

• Install the .xpi file in thunderbird manually
• Check the following things:
  • Summarize a message (including short-cut)
  • Create a response (including short-cut)
  • Reduce the network response time artificially via the dev tools and check whether the cancel request works (including short-cut)

Publish

• Create a tag in github with the version
• Create a release in github based on the version and the *.xpi file you created and tested
• Add the release to updates.json (Do this directly on the main branch. There are no advantages doing this via MR)