Iteration v9.7 (2024-08-03)

[StephanStS]

Day 0: Init new development cycle

To be done until: 2024-07-07 (sunday)

• [x] Create a new GitHub milestone for DietPi code https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/milestones
• [x] Create a new GitHub milestone for DietPi docs https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi-Docs/milestones
• [x] DietPi: Select issues for the new iteration in the new milestone and check for closed milestones from previous iteration
• [x] DietPi-Docs: Select issues for the new iteration in the new milestone and check for closed milestones from previous iteration
• [x] Create a new section in the DietPi Wiki
• [x] A new development cycle starts with a subversion increment, or major version increment when we drop support for an old Debian version or old DietPi versions. The RC version during the development cycle is "-1", to clearly identify unstable version strings. -> Edit version
• [x] Init CHANGELOG.txt (in the dev branch)
• [x] Add support to DietPi-Survey_report: Search for last release, e.g. aSOFTWARE_NAME9_0
• [x] Init dietpi-globals (in the dev branch) with G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE, G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB, G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC identical to the values in file version (see above)

3rd week: Beta phase

To be done until: 2024-07-25 (thursday)

• [ ] Merge live patches from master and remove in dev.
• [ ] Create pull requests for all required documentation changes:

To be done at: 2024-07-27 (saturday)

• [ ] Launch the initial beta as .0 RC version
• [ ] Advertise on GitHub
• [ ] Advertise on DietPi Forum with tag "beta"
• [ ] Advertise on DietPi-Banner MOTD

To be done at: 2024-07-28 (sunday)

• [ ] Advertise on website slider: https://dietpi.com/
• [ ] Advertise on X (DietPi account)
• [ ] Advertise on Facebook (DietPi group)

To be done from: 2024-07-28 - 2024-08-01 (thursday)

• [ ] Address bug reports with further beta iterations, e.g. .1 and .2 RC versions

2 days before the release

To be done until: 2024-08-01 (thursday)

• [ ] Have a release PR open on the main repo which needs to be linked from the changelog/release notes.
• [ ] Assure that update server version and DietPi-Globals default version match.
• [x] Have the docs release PR ready and reviewed, with release notes and required changes.
• [ ] Have a PR on the website ready to advertise the new release via website slide and have the docs PRs all ready and reviewed.

Release

To be done at: 2024-08-03 (saturday)

• [ ] Make the release
• [ ] Close beta topic in forum: https://dietpi.com/forum/tag/beta
• [ ] Publish the release notes in DietPi Docs (i.e. merge the release notes PR, do it as "Merge pull request" and not as "Squash & Merge")
• [ ] Trigger the documentation page update
• [ ] Link the release notes from website slider
• [ ] Update the MOTD
• [ ] Update software list in DietPi Wiki - software list
• [ ] If new sofware titles were introduced: Check ports in DietPi Wiki - port usage

Release announcements

To be done at: 2024-08-04 (sunday)

• [ ] Publish on Twitter (DietPi account)
• [ ] Publish on several Facebook groups (e.g. DietPi group)
• [ ] Announce on Hacker News and Reddit
• [ ] Forge and spread a press release
• [ ] Determine if a hotfix release is needed
• [ ] Create a new release plan
• [ ] Wikipedia page update (resp. Wikidata)