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= How To Make an ITK Release =
= How To Make an ITK Release =


This page describes the sequence of steps required for making an ITK release
This page describes the sequence of steps required for making an ITK release. There are typically two feature releases a year, around December and June, and one to three bug fixes between feature releases.
 
== Update CMake version required in CMakeList.txt ==
 
edit CMakeLists.txt and find the variables


    CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED
== Bug fix release general steps ==
# Create tag (with GPG signature) for release. Do not forget to update ITK revision number in CMakeLists.txt.
# Create release notes: <pre>git shortlog --no-merges v4.11.0..release</pre>
# Write blog post in a google doc and share it with the Comm’ team.
# Use same text (2) to prepare mailing list message
# Create tarballs and upload them on SourceForge
# Send email to Comm’ team so they can update links to tarballs on [http://www.itk.org www.itk.org]. Verify that links work!
# Send email to mailing list (user, develop, community), add post in the [https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111375098792764998322 ITKBarCamp Google+ community] and publish blog post.


and set it to the latest stable release of CMake.
'''For details of each step, refer to the sections below.'''


== Update Version number in CMakeList.txt ==
== Integrate bug fixes in the release branch ==
* Update master and release branches
<pre>git fetch
git checkout master
git reset --hard origin/master
git checkout release
git reset --hard origin/release</pre>
* List differences between last release and current release branch
<pre>git shortlog --no-merges v4.10.0..release</pre>
* Merge bug fix commits in release. Topic branch should be named <bug-name>-for-release
** If topic branch was created from release branch, checkout topic in new branch (see command lines on gerrit)
** If topic branch was created on master, cherry-pick commit (see command line on gerrit) on a topic branch created off release. The commit will be visible twice in the history once release in merged into master.
** Merge new branch on release: <pre>git merge <bug-name>-for-release --no-ff</pre>
** Update gerrit: write “Merged to release.” in merged topic.
* Merge release into master (so master keeps track of release history)
<pre>git checkout master
git pull
git merge release
git push origin master release</pre>
* For patches that need to be merged to the "release-3.20" branch, they are first merged to release-3.20, then release-3.20 is merged to the release branch with 'git merge -s ours' to avoid a huge number of merge conflicts. Then, release is merged into master.


Edit CMakeLists.txt and find the variables
== Pre-tag activities ==


* SET(ITK_VERSION_MAJOR "2")
* Make sure to update the versions in the top level CMakeLists.txt as described below
* SET(ITK_VERSION_MINOR "2")
** For bugfix releases, this is done before the tag.  For feature releases, this is done after the final tag.
* SET(ITK_VERSION_PATCH "0")
* Make sure all new remote modules are built in by the Doxygen build
* Update the WikiExamples and SphinxExamples remote modules.


and update them according to the current release number.
== Tag the ITK repository ==
 
== Tag the Insight repository ==


Tagging the repository should only be done with the agreement of the developers after a tcon.
Tagging the repository should only be done with the agreement of the developers after a tcon.
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use the commmand  
use the commmand  


   cvs -q update -d -P -A
   git checkout master
  git pull


to make sure that your source tree is updated. This must correspond
to make sure that your source tree is updated. This must correspond
to a source tree that has been fully tested in the Dashboard.
to a source tree that has been fully tested in the Dashboard.
When tagging a bugfix release on the ''release'' branch, make sure to bump the ''ITK_VERSION_PATCH'' variable in the top level ''CMakeLists.txt'' before tagging.  When tagging a feature release, make sure to bump the ''ITK_VERSION_MINOR'' version on the ''master'' branch after tagging.


=== Tag with a branch point reference ===
=== Tag with a branch point reference ===
''Note:''  At this time, Brad King, Matt McCormick, Francois Budin, or Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin are the person to do this because of their trusted GPG key.


In the source tree that you just updated, use the command
In the source tree that you just updated, use the command
 
  git tag -m "ITK 4.5-rc03" -s v4.5rc03 f9d99ca3ad00116393c4e2ce899beb00695ebb24
where, of course you change v4.5rc03 for the correct release number and the hash to the correct commit.
Push it to the repository
  git push origin v4.5rc03
=== Update the release branch ===
Update the release branch only during features releases after the tag for the release. Perform a fast-forward merge of master into release:
  git checkout release
  git reset --hard origin/release
  git merge --ff-only <version tag>
  git push origin release
  git checkout master
This will not create a new commit, only move the release branch to the tag, i.e. it will be fast forward.
For minor releases, merge release branch into master branch as for a normal commit, and resolve conflict (arising from mismatch in version number) by keeping master branch versions.
== Mark the release as resolved on the issue tracker ==
[https://issues.itk.org/jira/plugins/servlet/project-config/ITK/versions Projects -> ITK -> Versions]


  cvs tag ITK-2-2-bp
Schedule the next release, and update the [[ITK/Release Schedule | Release Schedule]] page.


where, of course you change -2-2- for the correct release number.
== Prepare Release Notes ==


This tag before the branching point serves as a reference for future merges.
Release notes are prepared in a Google Doc.


=== Tag and branch ===
A list of authors and new authors can be computed with [https://gist.github.com/thewtex/5045b8e13b5d12b8fdcf this script].


In the same source tree use the cvs command
Todo: Add more description of the structure of release notes.


  cvs tag -b ITK-2-2


where, again, of course, you replace -2-2 with the appropriate release number.
== Add New Remote Modules to Nightly Builds ==


The -b option will create a branch.
Some builds may be difficult to add due to third-party dependencies.


== Send Contributor Momentos ==


This file:
== Tag the InsightApplications repository ==


The same sequence of steps used for Insight must be used for tagging and branching the module of InsightApplications
  https://github.com/thewtex/vtkGEB/blob/itk/itkgeb.stl


== Tag CableSwig ==
can be ordered from ShapeWays and sent to contributors. Deb Howell has generated excellent packaging.


CableSwig must be tagged with the same tag used for the ITK release.
== Archive ExternalData ==
This is usually done by Brad King at Kitware.


Set the environmental or CMake variable ''ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES'' to a local directory. E.g.


== Prepare tarballs ==
  export ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES=${HOME}/data
 
Pre-populate the store with the contents of the 'InsightData' tarballs from a previous release. Once the tarball extracted, move the content of its subfolder called .ExternalData in your local ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES directory.
 
Then, from the ITK build directory, configure ITK, enable ''ITK_WRAP_PYTHON'', ''ITK_LEGACY_SILENT'' , ''BUILD_TESTING'' and ''BUILD_EXAMPLES''.
 
If you have previously enabled remote modules using the same ITK source directory, either verify that they are enabled in your
current build, or remove their source directory that has been added inside ITK source directory (Modules/Remote/{name_of_remote_module}).


Once the repository has been tagged, we CVS export its content using the tag in order to create .tar.gz and .zip files.
Build the ''ITKData'' target


=== CVS Exporting ===
  make ITKData


==== CVS login as anonymous ====
This will download new testing data since the previous release.


Create an empty directory, the use the CVS command for login
Next, run the script from within the ITK source directory:


  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.itk.org:/cvsroot/Insight login
  ./Utilities/Maintenance/ContentLinkSynchronization.sh ${ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES}


use "insight" as password
'''Do not use ''--cleanup'' as for the purpose of the GitHub resource, it is important to keep the older files: some are from older revisions of ITK, and people continue to use the older versions of ITK and request the testing data.'''


==== CVS checking out Insight ====
This is will verify all contents, fully populate the ''MD5/'' and ''SHA512/'' directories in the object store, and create any missing ''.md5'' or ''.sha512'' content links. If any new content link files are created, commit the result.


Then use the export CVS command with the tag of that release
Next, archive the data on data.kitware.com. Create a folder, e.g. ''4.11'', in [https://data.kitware.com/#collection/57b5c9e58d777f126827f5a1/folder/57b672b48d777f10f269651a ITK/ITKTestingData]


  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.itk.org:/cvsroot/Insight checkout -r ITK-2-2 -d InsightToolkit-2.2.0  Insight
  ./Utilities/Maintenance/ArchiveTestingDataOnGirder.py --object-store ${HOME}/data --parent-id <the-girder-id-of-the-folder-created> --api-key <your-girder-user-api-key>


* the option -r defines the tag to be used for checked out
This script requires the ''girder-client'' Python package install from Girder master, November 2016 or later, (Girder >2.0.0).
* the option -d creates a directory with a particular name. This directory name should match the number of the release


==== CVS checking out InsightApplications ====
Run the script


Export also InsightApplications with the command
  ./Utilities/Maintenance/ArchiveTestingDataOnMidas.py


  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.itk.org:/cvsroot/Insight checkout -r ITK-2-2 -d InsightApplications-2.2.0  InsightApplications
to upload the testing data from a local store on the ITK https://midas3.kitware.com/midas/ and http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3/ Community.


This script requires that [http://pydas.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ pydas] is installed. Note: If you get the following error message: <pre>pydas.exceptions.InvalidPolicy: 'Request failed with HTTP status code 200, Midas Server error code -151, and response content {"stat":"fail","message":"Invalid policy or itemid","code":"-151"}'</pre> make sure you have the permissions to write in the ITK collection on the Midas server.


==== CVS checking out CableSwig ====


Checkout CableSwig with the command
Archive the InsightData contents on ITK's file server at Kitware


  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.itk.org:/cvsroot/CableSwig checkout -r ITK-2-2  -d CableSwig-ITK-2.2.0 CableSwig
  rsync -v -r /tmp/InsightToolkit-4.9.0/.ExternalData/MD5/ public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/ExternalData/MD5/


Update the data archive at https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKTestingData


=== Create Tarballs ===
== Prepare tarballs ==


==== InsightToolkit tarball ====
==== InsightToolkit tarball ====


create the tar file with the command
Once the repository has been tagged, we use the following script in the repository to create the tarballs:
 
    Utilities/Maintenance/SourceTarball.bash --tgz --txz --zip
 
Note: tarballs can be created from a specific commit. The user can manually specify the version of ITK used to name the output files:
 
    Utilities/Maintenance/SourceTarball.bash -v 4.10.1 11f687df0347df9c1fee757745c1f1976ec3cbfe
 
After the tarballs have been uploaded to SourceForge, check their MD5 sums (the "i" info button on Sourceforge.net and locally with the 'md5sum' command). Also, download them from SourceForge and run an Experimental build on Linux, OSX, and Windows.
 
== ITK Software Guide ==
 
Bump the ITK version in Superbuild/ExternalITKv4.cmake.
 
Set the ''DRAFT_WATERMARK'' CMake varable to OFF to remove the draft watermark.
 
Set the ''PDF_QUALITY_LEVEL'' CMake configuration option to "Screen" for the electronic version and "Printer" for the print version.
 
Turn on ''GENERATE_HTML''.


  tar -c -f InsightToolkit-2.2.0.tar  InsightToolkit-2.2.0
To create ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf to put at itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf from InsightSoftwareGuide-Book{1,2}-4.X.0.pdf, use pdftk


use the maximum compression with gzip
  pdftk ITKSoftwareGuide-Book1.pdf ITKSoftwareGuide-Book2.pdf cat output /tmp/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf


  gzip -9  InsightToolkit-2.2.0.tar
=== Prepare the print version ===


That should produce a file named
Set the ''PDF_QUALITY_LEVEL'' to "Printer", and rebuild.


  InsightToolkit-2.2.0.tar.gz
Remove the junk initial page, and then also one of the blank pages so pages fall on "left-side / right-side" as formatted.


  pdftk ITKSoftwareGuide-Book1.pdf cat 2-3 5-end output /tmp/ITKSoftwareGuide-Book1.pdf
  pdftk ITKSoftwareGuide-Book2.pdf cat 2-3 5-end output /tmp/ITKSoftwareGuide-Book2.pdf


==== InsightApplications tarball ====
=== Update the HTML pages ===


create the tar file with the command
rsync the newly generated pages to the web server.


  tar -c -f InsightApplications-2.2.0.tar  InsightApplications-2.2.0
<pre>
rsync -rt html/ kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/ITKSoftwareGuide/html
</pre>


use the maximum compression with gzip
== ITK Sphinx Examples ==


  gzip -9  InsightApplications-2.2.0.tar
Bump the Superbuild ITK version in Superbuild/External-ITK.cmake.


That should produce a file named
Rendered versions (epub, pdf, html) can be downloaded from the [http://itk.org/ITKExamples/Documentation/Download/index.html download page] and rename them.


  InsightApplications-2.2.0.tar.gz
Create the source tarballs.


Set the prefix and tag:


==== CableSwig tarball ====
  tag=$(git describe)
  prefix=InsightSphinxExamples-4.10.0


create the tar file with the command
Generate .zip and .tar.gz:


  tar -c -f CableSwig-ITK-2.2.0.tar  CableSwig-ITK-2.2.0
  git archive --format=tar --prefix=${prefix}/ --output=${prefix}.tar ${tag}
  gzip -9  ${prefix}.tar
   git archive --format=zip -9 --prefix=${prefix}/ --output=${prefix}.zip ${tag}


use the maximum compression with gzip
== ITK Wiki Examples ==


  gzip -9  CableSwig-ITK-2.2.0.tar
Download the latest examples:


That should produce a file named
  version=4.12.0


  CableSwig-ITK-2.2.0.tar.gz
  wget -O ITKWikiExamples-master.zip https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKWikiExamples/archive/master.zip
  unzip ITKWikiExamples-master.zip
  mv ITKWikiExamples-master InsightWikiExamples-${version}
  zip -r InsightWikiExamples-${version}.zip InsightWikiExamples-${version}
  tar cvf InsightWikiExamples-${version}.tar InsightWikiExamples-${version}
  gzip -9 InsightWikiExamples-${version}.tar


=== Creating Zip files on Windows ===
== Generating Doxygen Documentation ==


Follow the above instructions for exporting the source files in a Windows machine. This can be done with a Cygwin that has been configured at installation-time for using a DOS file system, not a UNIX filesystem.
'''Note''': links to the nightly generated Doxygen can be found in the footer of the Doxygen HTML pages.
Use the files to upload and create InsightDoxygenDocTag-4.11.0.gz, InsightDoxygenXml-4.11.0.tar.gz, InsightDoxygenDocHtml-4.11.0.tar.gz.s


Once you have both directories: Insight and InsightApplications, right click on each of them and select the option "send to compressed file".
Prior to the release, new Remote Modules should be enabled in the Doxygen build's configuration.


=== Generating Doxygen Documentation ===


* Run CMake in the binary build and enable  BUILD_DOXYGEN
* Run CMake in the binary build and enable  BUILD_DOXYGEN
* Do Configure and Generate in CMake
* Do Configure and Generate in CMake
* Go to the binary directory
* Go to the binary directory
* Create the directory ./Documentation
* Type  "make Documentation"
* Create the directory ./Documentation/Doxygen
* Move into the directory Utilities/ ( cd Utilities/ )
* Type   "doxygen  doxygen.config"
* Rename the Doxygen directory as DoxygenInsightToolkit-3.4.0 (of course with the appropriate release number)
* Tar it with the command: tar -cf DoxygenInsightToolkit-3.4.0.tar DoxygenInsightToolkit-3.4.0
* Compress it with the command: gzip -9 DoxygenInsightToolkit-3.4.0.tar
 
Historical note: Before ITK 3.8, The documentation used to be generated in a directory called Documentation/Doxygen.
 
* In Public do:
** Copy documentation to:    /projects/Insight/Doxygen
*** Create a subdirectory Insight34-doxygen/Documentation/Doxygen
*** The final directory will look like: /projects/Insight/Doxygen/Insight34-doxygen/Documentation/Doxygen
*** and at that level copy the "html" directory and the InsightToolkit.tag file.
** Create symbolic link at:   /projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb
** ('''DEPRECATED''' - last release 4.1) <s>Create symbolic link at:  /projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web </s>


== Copy the files to the FTP directory in public.kitware.com ==
== Copy the files to the FTP directory in public.kitware.com ==


   scp  InsightToolkit-2.4.0.tar.gz         kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web/files/v2.4
   scp  InsightData-4.12.0.tar.gz                 kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  InsightApplications-2.4.0.tar.gz   kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web/files/v2.4
  scp  InsightData-4.12.0.tar.xz                  kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  InsightToolkit-2.4.0.zip           kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web/files/v2.4
  scp  InsightData-4.12.0.zip                    kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  InsightApplications-2.4.0.zip       kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web/files/v2.4
   scp  InsightToolkit-4.12.0.tar.gz               kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  DoxygenInsightToolkit-2.4.0.tar.gz kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web/files/v2.4
  scp  InsightToolkit-4.12.0.tar.xz              kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  DoxygenInsightToolkit-2.4.0.zip     kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web/files/v2.4
   scp  InsightToolkit-4.12.0.zip                 kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  CableSwig-2.4.0.tar.gz             kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web/files/v2.4
  <s>scp  InsightApplications-4.12.0.tar.gz          kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12</s>
   scp  CableSwig-2.4.0.zip                 kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web/files/v2.4
   <s>scp  InsightApplications-4.12.0.zip             kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12</s>
  scp  InsightDoxygenDocHtml-4.12.0.tar.gz        kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
  scp  InsightDoxygenDocTag-4.12.0.tar.gz        kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  InsightDoxygenDocXml-4.12.0.tar.gz         kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
  scp  ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf                      kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
  scp  InsightSoftwareGuide-Book1-4.12.0.pdf      kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  InsightSoftwareGuide-Book2-4.12.0.pdf      kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
  scp  InsightSoftwareGuideHtml-4.12.0.tar.gz     kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  InsightWikiExamples-4.12.0.tar.gz         kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
   scp  InsightWikiExamples-4.12.0.zip             kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 
  ssh kitware@public
  cd /projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb
  rm ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf
  ln -s files/v4.12/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf


== Copy the files to SourceForge ==
== Copy the files to SourceForge ==
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* Ken Martin at Kitware
* Ken Martin at Kitware
* Luis Ibanez at Kitware
* Brad King at Kitware
* Matt McCormick at Kitware
* Francois Budin at Kitware
* Brad Lowekamp at NLM
 
=== Using The New (2010) Interface ===
 
Go to this page
 
  https://sourceforge.net/downloads/itk/itk/
 
and provide user name and password
 
Then
 
* Use the "Add Folder" button to create a folder for the release.
* Click on the folder to open it
* Use the "Add File" button to upload files. The interface allows you to select multiple files for simultaneous upload.
 
After uploading, make sure to check the hashes on the uploads.  These can be shown with the "(i)" button next to the file.
 
'''Large files''', like the Doxygen HTML tarball, '''need to be uploaded with scp''', a la:
 
  scp InsightDoxygenDocHtml-4.7.0.tar.gz mmmccormic@frs.sourceforge.net:/home/frs/project/itk/itk/4.7/InsightDoxygenDocHtml-4.7.0.tar.gz


== Update the HTML Download page ==
== Update the HTML Download page ==


Go to your checkout of InsightDocuments
Contact Communications at Kitware in order to
 
* Update the Download HTML page: http://www.itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html
* Produce a press release
* Update http://itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf
 
== Update the HTML Documentation page ==
 
=== Documentation.htm ===
 
Contact Communications at Kitware in order to update the page:
 
  http://www.itk.org/ITK/help/documentation.html
 
The content should be updated to point to the Doxygen documentation of the current release
 
== Update the Release Notes in the Wiki ==
 
=== Add entry for next planned release ===
 
Delete the old entry and add a new entry in the [[ITK/Release Schedule| scheduled releases page]]


and to the subdirectory Web/HTML
=== Update the Releases page ===


cvs update it
Add the "What's New" and "What's Changed" entries to the [[ITK/Releases| Releases]] page.


edit the file
===Update "What's New in Release x.x" Wiki Page ===


  Download.htm
Update this web-page with the e-mail sent to the ITK mailing indicating the notable changes and other important information about the release.


== Update the "What's New in Release x.x" Wiki Page ==
=== Update "What has Changed since previous release" ===


From a Linux system, cd into an Insight binary directory and run  
From a Linux system, cd into an ITK Git directory and run  


./NewSince.csh StartDateOfRelease EndDateofRelease
  git shortlog --topo-order --no-merges v4.0.0..v4.1.0


For example, Release 2.0
Delete the KWRobot time stamp commits.
./NewSince.csh "August 10, 2004" "February 4, 2005"


This will produce a file in @ITK_BIN_DIR@/Testing/Temporary/NewSince.txt that can be pasted into the Wiki page ITK_RELEASE_X_X. Update the main ITK Wiki page to include a link to this new page.
== <s>Update Insight Journal</s> (deprecated)==


<s>Contact Zack and request to do the following:
* Install new ITK version in the Insight Journal testing environment
* Update IJMacros.txt: Add the just released version of ITK</s>
== Update JIRA issue tracker ==
* Create a new version to make possible for users to report bug pertaining to that specific ITK release
** Create the next release target milestone with Administration -> ITK -> Versions -> Add
** Release the current release milestone with Agile -> Classic ... -> Right click the release on the left -> Release


== Further Testing ==
== Further Testing ==
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The purpose of this testing is to replicate the experience that a user may have when trying the new release.
The purpose of this testing is to replicate the experience that a user may have when trying the new release.


This means that a number of ITK developers should download the tarballs or do CVS checkouts with the release tag, and build the toolki t in as many configuration as possible.
This means that a number of ITK developers should download the tarballs or do Git checkouts with the release tag, and build the toolkit in as many configuration as possible.
 
== Notes ==


* ITK minor releases (patch) do not have a tagged release candidate.
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Latest revision as of 14:13, 16 October 2019

Warning: The current authoritative resource is GitHub release documentation.

How To Make an ITK Release

This page describes the sequence of steps required for making an ITK release. There are typically two feature releases a year, around December and June, and one to three bug fixes between feature releases.

Bug fix release general steps

  1. Create tag (with GPG signature) for release. Do not forget to update ITK revision number in CMakeLists.txt.
  2. Create release notes: 
    git shortlog --no-merges v4.11.0..release
  3. Write blog post in a google doc and share it with the Comm’ team.
  4. Use same text (2) to prepare mailing list message
  5. Create tarballs and upload them on SourceForge
  6. Send email to Comm’ team so they can update links to tarballs on www.itk.org. Verify that links work!
  7. Send email to mailing list (user, develop, community), add post in the ITKBarCamp Google+ community and publish blog post.

For details of each step, refer to the sections below.

Integrate bug fixes in the release branch

  • Update master and release branches
git fetch
git checkout master
git reset --hard origin/master
git checkout release
git reset --hard origin/release
  • List differences between last release and current release branch
git shortlog --no-merges v4.10.0..release
  • Merge bug fix commits in release. Topic branch should be named <bug-name>-for-release
    • If topic branch was created from release branch, checkout topic in new branch (see command lines on gerrit)
    • If topic branch was created on master, cherry-pick commit (see command line on gerrit) on a topic branch created off release. The commit will be visible twice in the history once release in merged into master.
    • Merge new branch on release: 
      git merge <bug-name>-for-release --no-ff
    • Update gerrit: write “Merged to release.” in merged topic.
  • Merge release into master (so master keeps track of release history)
git checkout master
git pull
git merge release
git push origin master release
  • For patches that need to be merged to the "release-3.20" branch, they are first merged to release-3.20, then release-3.20 is merged to the release branch with 'git merge -s ours' to avoid a huge number of merge conflicts. Then, release is merged into master.

Pre-tag activities

  • Make sure to update the versions in the top level CMakeLists.txt as described below
    • For bugfix releases, this is done before the tag. For feature releases, this is done after the final tag.
  • Make sure all new remote modules are built in by the Doxygen build
  • Update the WikiExamples and SphinxExamples remote modules.

Tag the ITK repository

Tagging the repository should only be done with the agreement of the developers after a tcon.

Update your repository with

use the commmand 

  git checkout master
  git pull

to make sure that your source tree is updated. This must correspond to a source tree that has been fully tested in the Dashboard.

When tagging a bugfix release on the release branch, make sure to bump the ITK_VERSION_PATCH variable in the top level CMakeLists.txt before tagging. When tagging a feature release, make sure to bump the ITK_VERSION_MINOR version on the master branch after tagging.

Tag with a branch point reference

Note: At this time, Brad King, Matt McCormick, Francois Budin, or Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin are the person to do this because of their trusted GPG key.

In the source tree that you just updated, use the command 

 git tag -m "ITK 4.5-rc03" -s v4.5rc03 f9d99ca3ad00116393c4e2ce899beb00695ebb24


where, of course you change v4.5rc03 for the correct release number and the hash to the correct commit.

Push it to the repository 

 git push origin v4.5rc03

Update the release branch

Update the release branch only during features releases after the tag for the release. Perform a fast-forward merge of master into release: 

 git checkout release
 git reset --hard origin/release
 git merge --ff-only <version tag>
 git push origin release
 git checkout master

This will not create a new commit, only move the release branch to the tag, i.e. it will be fast forward.

For minor releases, merge release branch into master branch as for a normal commit, and resolve conflict (arising from mismatch in version number) by keeping master branch versions.

Mark the release as resolved on the issue tracker

Projects -> ITK -> Versions

Schedule the next release, and update the Release Schedule page.

Prepare Release Notes

Release notes are prepared in a Google Doc.

A list of authors and new authors can be computed with this script.

Todo: Add more description of the structure of release notes.


Add New Remote Modules to Nightly Builds

Some builds may be difficult to add due to third-party dependencies.

Send Contributor Momentos

This file: 

 https://github.com/thewtex/vtkGEB/blob/itk/itkgeb.stl

can be ordered from ShapeWays and sent to contributors. Deb Howell has generated excellent packaging.

Archive ExternalData

Set the environmental or CMake variable ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES to a local directory. E.g. 

 export ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES=${HOME}/data

Pre-populate the store with the contents of the 'InsightData' tarballs from a previous release. Once the tarball extracted, move the content of its subfolder called .ExternalData in your local ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES directory.

Then, from the ITK build directory, configure ITK, enable ITK_WRAP_PYTHON, ITK_LEGACY_SILENT , BUILD_TESTING and BUILD_EXAMPLES.

If you have previously enabled remote modules using the same ITK source directory, either verify that they are enabled in your current build, or remove their source directory that has been added inside ITK source directory (Modules/Remote/{name_of_remote_module}).

Build the ITKData target 

 make ITKData

This will download new testing data since the previous release.

Next, run the script from within the ITK source directory: 

 ./Utilities/Maintenance/ContentLinkSynchronization.sh ${ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES}

Do not use --cleanup as for the purpose of the GitHub resource, it is important to keep the older files: some are from older revisions of ITK, and people continue to use the older versions of ITK and request the testing data.

This is will verify all contents, fully populate the MD5/ and SHA512/ directories in the object store, and create any missing .md5 or .sha512 content links. If any new content link files are created, commit the result.

Next, archive the data on data.kitware.com. Create a folder, e.g. 4.11, in ITK/ITKTestingData 

 ./Utilities/Maintenance/ArchiveTestingDataOnGirder.py --object-store ${HOME}/data --parent-id <the-girder-id-of-the-folder-created> --api-key <your-girder-user-api-key>

This script requires the girder-client Python package install from Girder master, November 2016 or later, (Girder >2.0.0).

Run the script 

 ./Utilities/Maintenance/ArchiveTestingDataOnMidas.py

to upload the testing data from a local store on the ITK https://midas3.kitware.com/midas/ and http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3/ Community.

This script requires that pydas is installed. Note: If you get the following error message: 

pydas.exceptions.InvalidPolicy: 'Request failed with HTTP status code 200, Midas Server error code -151, and response content {"stat":"fail","message":"Invalid policy or itemid","code":"-151"}'

make sure you have the permissions to write in the ITK collection on the Midas server.


Archive the InsightData contents on ITK's file server at Kitware 

 rsync -v -r /tmp/InsightToolkit-4.9.0/.ExternalData/MD5/ public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/ExternalData/MD5/

Update the data archive at https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKTestingData

Prepare tarballs

InsightToolkit tarball

Once the repository has been tagged, we use the following script in the repository to create the tarballs: 

   Utilities/Maintenance/SourceTarball.bash --tgz --txz --zip

Note: tarballs can be created from a specific commit. The user can manually specify the version of ITK used to name the output files: 

   Utilities/Maintenance/SourceTarball.bash -v 4.10.1 11f687df0347df9c1fee757745c1f1976ec3cbfe

After the tarballs have been uploaded to SourceForge, check their MD5 sums (the "i" info button on Sourceforge.net and locally with the 'md5sum' command). Also, download them from SourceForge and run an Experimental build on Linux, OSX, and Windows.

ITK Software Guide

Bump the ITK version in Superbuild/ExternalITKv4.cmake.

Set the DRAFT_WATERMARK CMake varable to OFF to remove the draft watermark.

Set the PDF_QUALITY_LEVEL CMake configuration option to "Screen" for the electronic version and "Printer" for the print version.

Turn on GENERATE_HTML.

To create ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf to put at itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf from InsightSoftwareGuide-Book{1,2}-4.X.0.pdf, use pdftk 

 pdftk ITKSoftwareGuide-Book1.pdf ITKSoftwareGuide-Book2.pdf cat output /tmp/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf

Prepare the print version

Set the PDF_QUALITY_LEVEL to "Printer", and rebuild.

Remove the junk initial page, and then also one of the blank pages so pages fall on "left-side / right-side" as formatted. 

 pdftk ITKSoftwareGuide-Book1.pdf cat 2-3 5-end output /tmp/ITKSoftwareGuide-Book1.pdf
 pdftk ITKSoftwareGuide-Book2.pdf cat 2-3 5-end output /tmp/ITKSoftwareGuide-Book2.pdf

Update the HTML pages

rsync the newly generated pages to the web server. 

rsync -rt html/ kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/ITKSoftwareGuide/html

ITK Sphinx Examples

Bump the Superbuild ITK version in Superbuild/External-ITK.cmake.

Rendered versions (epub, pdf, html) can be downloaded from the download page and rename them.

Create the source tarballs.

Set the prefix and tag: 

 tag=$(git describe)
 prefix=InsightSphinxExamples-4.10.0

Generate .zip and .tar.gz: 

 git archive --format=tar --prefix=${prefix}/ --output=${prefix}.tar ${tag}
 gzip -9  ${prefix}.tar
 git archive --format=zip -9 --prefix=${prefix}/ --output=${prefix}.zip ${tag}

ITK Wiki Examples

Download the latest examples: 

 version=4.12.0

 wget -O ITKWikiExamples-master.zip https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITKWikiExamples/archive/master.zip 
 unzip ITKWikiExamples-master.zip
 mv ITKWikiExamples-master InsightWikiExamples-${version}
 zip -r InsightWikiExamples-${version}.zip InsightWikiExamples-${version}
 tar cvf InsightWikiExamples-${version}.tar InsightWikiExamples-${version}
 gzip -9 InsightWikiExamples-${version}.tar

Generating Doxygen Documentation

Note: links to the nightly generated Doxygen can be found in the footer of the Doxygen HTML pages. Use the files to upload and create InsightDoxygenDocTag-4.11.0.gz, InsightDoxygenXml-4.11.0.tar.gz, InsightDoxygenDocHtml-4.11.0.tar.gz.s

Prior to the release, new Remote Modules should be enabled in the Doxygen build's configuration.


  • Run CMake in the binary build and enable BUILD_DOXYGEN
  • Do Configure and Generate in CMake
  • Go to the binary directory
  • Type "make Documentation"
  • Move into the directory Utilities/ ( cd Utilities/ )
  • Rename the Doxygen directory as DoxygenInsightToolkit-3.4.0 (of course with the appropriate release number)
  • Tar it with the command: tar -cf DoxygenInsightToolkit-3.4.0.tar DoxygenInsightToolkit-3.4.0
  • Compress it with the command: gzip -9 DoxygenInsightToolkit-3.4.0.tar

Historical note: Before ITK 3.8, The documentation used to be generated in a directory called Documentation/Doxygen.

  • In Public do:
    • Copy documentation to: /projects/Insight/Doxygen
      • Create a subdirectory Insight34-doxygen/Documentation/Doxygen
      • The final directory will look like: /projects/Insight/Doxygen/Insight34-doxygen/Documentation/Doxygen
      • and at that level copy the "html" directory and the InsightToolkit.tag file.
    • Create symbolic link at: /projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb
    • (DEPRECATED - last release 4.1) Create symbolic link at: /projects/Insight/WWW/InsightDocuments/Web

Copy the files to the FTP directory in public.kitware.com

 scp   InsightData-4.12.0.tar.gz                  kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightData-4.12.0.tar.xz                  kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightData-4.12.0.zip                     kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightToolkit-4.12.0.tar.gz               kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightToolkit-4.12.0.tar.xz               kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightToolkit-4.12.0.zip                  kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightApplications-4.12.0.tar.gz          kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightApplications-4.12.0.zip             kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightDoxygenDocHtml-4.12.0.tar.gz        kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightDoxygenDocTag-4.12.0.tar.gz         kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightDoxygenDocXml-4.12.0.tar.gz         kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf                       kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightSoftwareGuide-Book1-4.12.0.pdf      kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightSoftwareGuide-Book2-4.12.0.pdf      kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightSoftwareGuideHtml-4.12.0.tar.gz     kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightWikiExamples-4.12.0.tar.gz          kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12
 scp   InsightWikiExamples-4.12.0.zip             kitware@public:/projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb/files/v4.12

 ssh kitware@public
 cd /projects/Insight/WWW/InsightWeb
 rm ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf
 ln -s files/v4.12/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf

Copy the files to SourceForge

This is to be done only by

  • Ken Martin at Kitware
  • Brad King at Kitware
  • Matt McCormick at Kitware
  • Francois Budin at Kitware
  • Brad Lowekamp at NLM

Using The New (2010) Interface

Go to this page 

  https://sourceforge.net/downloads/itk/itk/

and provide user name and password

Then

  • Use the "Add Folder" button to create a folder for the release.
  • Click on the folder to open it
  • Use the "Add File" button to upload files. The interface allows you to select multiple files for simultaneous upload.

After uploading, make sure to check the hashes on the uploads. These can be shown with the "(i)" button next to the file.

Large files, like the Doxygen HTML tarball, need to be uploaded with scp, a la: 

 scp InsightDoxygenDocHtml-4.7.0.tar.gz mmmccormic@frs.sourceforge.net:/home/frs/project/itk/itk/4.7/InsightDoxygenDocHtml-4.7.0.tar.gz

Update the HTML Download page

Contact Communications at Kitware in order to

Update the HTML Documentation page

Documentation.htm

Contact Communications at Kitware in order to update the page: 

  http://www.itk.org/ITK/help/documentation.html

The content should be updated to point to the Doxygen documentation of the current release

Update the Release Notes in the Wiki

Add entry for next planned release

Delete the old entry and add a new entry in the scheduled releases page

Update the Releases page

Add the "What's New" and "What's Changed" entries to the Releases page.

Update "What's New in Release x.x" Wiki Page

Update this web-page with the e-mail sent to the ITK mailing indicating the notable changes and other important information about the release.

Update "What has Changed since previous release"

From a Linux system, cd into an ITK Git directory and run 

 git shortlog --topo-order --no-merges v4.0.0..v4.1.0

Delete the KWRobot time stamp commits.

Update Insight Journal (deprecated)

Contact Zack and request to do the following:

  • Install new ITK version in the Insight Journal testing environment
  • Update IJMacros.txt: Add the just released version of ITK

Update JIRA issue tracker

  • Create a new version to make possible for users to report bug pertaining to that specific ITK release
    • Create the next release target milestone with Administration -> ITK -> Versions -> Add
    • Release the current release milestone with Agile -> Classic ... -> Right click the release on the left -> Release

Further Testing

The purpose of this testing is to replicate the experience that a user may have when trying the new release.

This means that a number of ITK developers should download the tarballs or do Git checkouts with the release tag, and build the toolkit in as many configuration as possible.

Notes

  • ITK minor releases (patch) do not have a tagged release candidate.


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