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Release

Build Snapshot Release

To build and test the goreleaser packages, snapshot releases are used. Snapshots use the commit hash as version, instead of a valid semantic versioned tag. All generated artifacts are stored in a beforehand emptied directory bin/.

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make snapshot-release

Build Production Release

Important

Needs environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN set for publishing releases and changelogs depending on conventional commits.

  1. Get the latest released tag. 
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    git describe --tags --abbrev=0

  2. Increment the version, create the tag and push to main repository. Commit tags use the format Semantic Versioning. The tag description can be the semantic version. 

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    git tag -a v0.0.0 -m "v0.0.0"
git push

  3. Build release.

Caution

The build and deployment of the production release / binaries is part of the GitHub pipeline.

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make release