fwupd Release Notes

Write release entries:

    ../../contrib/generate-release.py
    # copy into ../../data/org.freedesktop.fwupd.metainfo.xml
    appstream-util appdata-to-news ../../data/org.freedesktop.fwupd.metainfo.xml > NEWS

2. Commit changes to git:

# MAKE SURE THIS IS CORRECT
export release_ver="2.0.20"

git commit -a -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}" --no-verify
git tag -s -f -m "Release fwupd ${release_ver}" "${release_ver}"
<wait>
git push --tags
git push

3. Generate the tarball:

ninja dist

3a. Generate the additional verification metadata

gpg -b -a meson-dist/fwupd-${release_ver}.tar.xz

4. Create release and upload tarball to https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/tags

5. Do post release version bump in meson.build

6. Commit changes:

git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump" --no-verify
git push

7. Update flatpak package for new release:

https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.fwupd
