How to: Prepare a release

• Create a milestone with the full version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH(-SUFFIX) in the official repo:
  • Check that all closed issues and PRs are associated to this milestone.
  • Move remaining open issues and PRs to a future milestone.
  • Close the milestone.
• Create a branch release/MAJOR.MINOR in the official repo:
  • Merge the previous release branch into current release branch (it contains differences in appveyor.yml).
  • Merge master branch into current release branch.
  • Bump version and version_suffix in appveyor.yml in current release branch.
  • Verify that everything builds correctly.
• Create the final build artifacts:
  • Set the environment variable ARTIFACT_SIGNING_ENABLED on https://ci.appveyor.com to true.
  • Trigger a re-build on appveyor.com. The artifacts are automatically uploaded to https://signpath.io.
  • Set the environment variable ARTIFACT_SIGNING_ENABLED on https://ci.appveyor.com back to false.
  • Log in to https://signpath.io, verify and approve the signing request.
  • Download the signed artifacts.
• Create a release Version MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH(-SUFFIX) in the official repo:
  • Tag the version with vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH(-SUFFIX) on current release branch.
  • Attach the signed artifacts.
• Upload the signed NuGet package to https://www.nuget.org.