How to release

• Make sure you’re on main and synced to HEAD
• Ensure the project builds and tests run
  • parallel -j0 exec ::: test/*_test can help ensure everything at least passes
• Prepare release notes
  • git log $(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags)..HEAD gives you the list of commits between the last annotated tag and HEAD
  • Pick the most interesting.
• Create one last commit that updates the version saved in CMakeLists.txt, MODULE.bazel, and bindings/python/google_benchmark/__init__.py to the release version you’re creating. (This version will be used if benchmark is installed from the archive you’ll be creating in the next step.)

# CMakeLists.txt
project (benchmark VERSION 1.9.0 LANGUAGES CXX)

# MODULE.bazel
module(name = "com_github_google_benchmark", version="1.9.0")

# google_benchmark/__init__.py
__version__ = "1.9.0"

• Create a release through github’s interface
  • Note this will create a lightweight tag.
  • Update this to an annotated tag:
    • git pull --tags
    • git tag -a -f <tag> <tag>
    • git push --force --tags origin
• Confirm that the “Build and upload Python wheels” action runs to completion
  • Run it manually if it hasn’t run.