Release Process

update translations (ping wumpus, Diapolo or tcatm on IRC)
see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/translation_process.md#syncing-with-transifex

###update (commit) version in sources

contrib/verifysfbinaries/verify.sh
doc/README*
share/setup.nsi
src/clientversion.h (change CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE to true)

###tag version in git

git tag -s v(new version, e.g. 0.8.0)

###write release notes. git shortlog helps a lot, for example:

git shortlog --no-merges v(current version, e.g. 0.7.2)..v(new version, e.g. 0.8.0)

##perform gitian builds

From a directory containing the bitcoin source, gitian-builder and gitian.sigs

export SIGNER=(your gitian key, ie bluematt, sipa, etc)
export VERSION=(new version, e.g. 0.8.0)
pushd ./bitcoin
git checkout v${VERSION}
popd
pushd ./gitian-builder
    mkdir -p inputs; cd inputs/

Register and download the Apple SDK (see OSX Readme for details) visit https://developer.apple.com/downloads/download.action?path=Developer_Tools/xcode_4.6.3/xcode4630916281a.dmg

Using a Mac, create a tarball for the 10.7 SDK tar -C /Volumes/Xcode/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/ -czf MacOSX10.7.sdk.tar.gz MacOSX10.7.sdk

Fetch and build inputs: (first time, or when dependency versions change)

wget 'http://miniupnp.free.fr/files/download.php?file=miniupnpc-1.9.20140701.tar.gz' -O miniupnpc-1.9.20140701.tar.gz
wget 'https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1k.tar.gz'
wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz'
wget 'http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz'
wget 'ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png/src/history/libpng16/libpng-1.6.8.tar.gz'
wget 'https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/qrencode-3.4.3.tar.bz2'
wget 'https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.55.0/boost_1_55_0.tar.bz2'
wget 'https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/raw-attachment/ticket/7262/boost-mingw.patch' -O \ 
     boost-mingw-gas-cross-compile-2013-03-03.patch
wget 'https://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.2/5.2.0/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.2.0.tar.gz'
wget 'https://download.qt-project.org/archive/qt/4.6/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.4.tar.gz'
wget 'https://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2'
wget 'https://github.com/mingwandroid/toolchain4/archive/10cc648683617cca8bcbeae507888099b41b530c.tar.gz'
wget 'http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/cctools/cctools-809.tar.gz'
wget 'http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/dyld/dyld-195.5.tar.gz'
wget 'http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/ld64/ld64-127.2.tar.gz'
wget 'http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/cdrkit/cdrkit-1.1.11.tar.gz/efe08e2f3ca478486037b053acd512e9/cdrkit-1.1.11.tar.gz'
wget 'https://github.com/theuni/libdmg-hfsplus/archive/libdmg-hfsplus-v0.1.tar.gz'
wget 'http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/clang+llvm-3.2-x86-linux-ubuntu-12.04.tar.gz' -O \
     clang-llvm-3.2-x86-linux-ubuntu-12.04.tar.gz
    wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theuni/osx-cross-depends/master/patches/cdrtools/genisoimage.diff' -O \
     cdrkit-deterministic.patch
cd ..
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/boost-linux.yml
mv build/out/boost-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/deps-linux.yml
mv build/out/bitcoin-deps-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/qt-linux.yml
mv build/out/qt-*.tar.gz inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/boost-win.yml
mv build/out/boost-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/deps-win.yml
mv build/out/bitcoin-deps-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/qt-win.yml
mv build/out/qt-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/protobuf-win.yml
mv build/out/protobuf-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-native.yml
mv build/out/osx-*.tar.gz inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-depends.yml
mv build/out/osx-*.tar.gz inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-qt.yml
mv build/out/osx-*.tar.gz inputs/

The expected SHA256 hashes of the intermediate inputs are:

b1f6f10148d4c4a1a69a58e703427578dc5a4de86eefd6b925e3abf3c8fbe542  bitcoin-deps-linux32-gitian-r9.zip
71e03e434af269dcbf3cb685cd1a5d51b8d2c904b67035eb4e5c1a2623b9f0df  bitcoin-deps-linux64-gitian-r9.zip
f29b7d9577417333fb56e023c2977f5726a7c297f320b175a4108cf7cd4c2d29  boost-linux32-1.55.0-gitian-r1.zip
88232451c4104f7eb16e469ac6474fd1231bd485687253f7b2bdf46c0781d535  boost-linux64-1.55.0-gitian-r1.zip
57e57dbdadc818cd270e7e00500a5e1085b3bcbdef69a885f0fb7573a8d987e1  qt-linux32-4.6.4-gitian-r1.tar.gz
60eb4b9c5779580b7d66529efa5b2836ba1a70edde2a0f3f696d647906a826be  qt-linux64-4.6.4-gitian-r1.tar.gz
60dc2d3b61e9c7d5dbe2f90d5955772ad748a47918ff2d8b74e8db9b1b91c909  boost-win32-1.55.0-gitian-r6.zip
f65fcaf346bc7b73bc8db3a8614f4f6bee2f61fcbe495e9881133a7c2612a167  boost-win64-1.55.0-gitian-r6.zip
2af17b1968bd7d46b260c8d16474e1f339cde1b9e96265c80f6626ea0c2785a9  bitcoin-deps-win32-gitian-r16.zip
7608bdf7848101d48ba8a296cb9c29ac68193405f11d8075fb46154ff3476233  bitcoin-deps-win64-gitian-r16.zip
963e3e5e85879010a91143c90a711a5d1d5aba992e38672cdf7b54e42c56b2f1  qt-win32-5.2.0-gitian-r3.zip
751c579830d173ef3e6f194e83d18b92ebef6df03289db13ab77a52b6bc86ef0  qt-win64-5.2.0-gitian-r3.zip
e2e403e1a08869c7eed4d4293bce13d51ec6a63592918b90ae215a0eceb44cb4  protobuf-win32-2.5.0-gitian-r4.zip
a0999037e8b0ef9ade13efd88fee261ba401f5ca910068b7e0cd3262ba667db0  protobuf-win64-2.5.0-gitian-r4.zip

Build bitcoind and bitcoin-qt on Linux32, Linux64, and Win32:

./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION} --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
pushd build/out
zip -r bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux-gitian.zip *
mv bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux-gitian.zip ../../../
popd
./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION}-win --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
pushd build/out
zip -r bitcoin-${VERSION}-win-gitian.zip *
mv bitcoin-${VERSION}-win-gitian.zip ../../../
popd
    ./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-bitcoin.yml
    ./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION}-osx --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-bitcoin.yml
pushd build/out
mv Bitcoin-Qt.dmg ../../../
popd
popd

Build output expected:

linux 32-bit and 64-bit binaries + source (bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux-gitian.zip)
windows 32-bit and 64-bit binaries + installer + source (bitcoin-${VERSION}-win-gitian.zip)
OSX installer (Bitcoin-Qt.dmg)
Gitian signatures (in gitian.sigs/${VERSION}[-win|-osx]/(your gitian key)/

repackage gitian builds for release as stand-alone zip/tar/installer exe

Linux .tar.gz:

unzip bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux-gitian.zip -d bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux
tar czvf bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux.tar.gz bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux
rm -rf bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux

Windows .zip and setup.exe:

unzip bitcoin-${VERSION}-win-gitian.zip -d bitcoin-${VERSION}-win
mv bitcoin-${VERSION}-win/bitcoin-*-setup.exe .
zip -r bitcoin-${VERSION}-win.zip bitcoin-${VERSION}-win
rm -rf bitcoin-${VERSION}-win

Mac OS X .dmg:

mv Bitcoin-Qt.dmg bitcoin-${VERSION}-osx.dmg

###Next steps:

Commit your signature to gitian.sigs:

pushd gitian.sigs
git add ${VERSION}-linux/${SIGNER}
git add ${VERSION}-win/${SIGNER}
git add ${VERSION}-osx/${SIGNER}
git commit -a
git push  # Assuming you can push to the gitian.sigs tree
popd

After 3 or more people have gitian-built and their results match:

Perform code-signing.
- Code-sign Windows -setup.exe (in a Windows virtual machine using signtool)
- Code-sign MacOSX .dmg
Note: only Gavin has the code-signing keys currently.
Create SHA256SUMS.asc for builds, and PGP-sign it. This is done manually. Include all the files to be uploaded. The file has sha256sum format with a simple header at the top:

Hash: SHA256

0060f7d38b98113ab912d4c184000291d7f026eaf77ca5830deec15059678f54  bitcoin-x.y.z-linux.tar.gz
...

Upload zips and installers, as well as SHA256SUMS.asc from last step, to the bitcoin.org server
Update bitcoin.org version
- Make a pull request to add a file named YYYY-MM-DD-vX.Y.Z.md with the release notes to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/tree/master/_releases (Example for 0.9.2.1).
- After the pull request is merged, the website will automatically show the newest version, as well as update the OS download links. Ping Saivann in case anything goes wrong
Announce the release:
- Release sticky on bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0
- Bitcoin-development mailing list
- Update title of #bitcoin on Freenode IRC
- Optionally reddit /r/Bitcoin, ... but this will usually sort out itself
Notify BlueMatt so that he can start building [https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin](the PPAs)
Add release notes for the new version to the directory doc/release-notes in git master
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After 3 or more people have gitian-built and their results match:

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