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Creating and Posting Brackets Hotfix Releases

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Bryan Chin edited this page Jan 8, 2014 · 8 revisions

Follow these steps to create a hotfix branch and release for Brackets Sprint (XX):

Setup the hotfix branch

  1. create a new hotfix branch in both brackets and brackets-shell
git checkout -b sprint-XX-hotfix
  1. increment the sprint minor version (Y) in both brackets and brackets-shell
grunt set-sprint --sprint=XX.Y

If you choose to increment the version manually, please be sure to increment the product.sprint.number value defined in installer/win/brackets-win-install-build.xml. Otherwise, in-place upgrades on Windows won't install correctly.

  1. commit your changes to both GitHub repos.

Test the hotfix builds

Test installing the resulting hotfix builds on Mac, Win, and Linux platforms. Since Sprint 34 and later releases install in-place, be sure to check that upgrades also install correctly. Specifically, be sure to test installing the hotfix builds on systems which:

  • do not have Brackets Sprint 34 or later installed
  • do have the last major Brackets Sprint release installed, in particular, the one with the same major version as the hotfix.

To confirm that the installation worked correctly, confirm that:

  • the installer completes successfully
  • there is just one Brackets application shortcut (ie. that any previously installed, Sprint 34 or later shortcuts were overridden)
  • Brackets launches successfully
  • (Windows-only) there is just one entry to uninstall Brackets in Control Panel > Programs and Features list

Post the hotfix builds to Brackets.io

As exemplified with the Brackets Sprint 34.1 hotfix release, please post the hotfix builds to download.brackets.io as follows:

  1. any hotfix build will replace the previously posted build of the same major version number.
  2. the hotfix build installers will be posted with the same installer filenames as the previously posted major release. To do so, rename the .dmg and .msi installer filenames to remove the .Y suffix.
  3. don't delete the previous releases' Release Notes, but just add the hotfix release notes to the list
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