SOF 2.2 Release Checklist

[mengdonglin]

Pre RC1 Steps:

• [x] tag any of the issues and feature lists with milestone v2.2 https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3Av2.2
• [x] Align on FW and topology layout update in https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin
• [x] Choose a SOF commit on main branch as candidate for branch out stable-v2.2
• [x] Choose a Zephyr commit on main branch as candidate for branch out a copy for SOF v2.2
• [x] Testing & sign off this commit
• [x] branch out stable-v2.2

RC1 Steps:

• [x] Cherry pick critical bug fixings and features to stable-v2.2 for RC1
• [x] Perform FW security scan and fix opens
• [x] Update Zephyr branch for v2.2
• [x] Testing & sign off
• [x] Tag v2.2-rc1
• [x] Make rc1 release on https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/releases
• [x] signing of the FW, upload FW and topology binaries to internal release folder
• [x] Update binary release script
• [x] Make rc1 release on https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin
• [x] Send the mail to ALSA mailing list?

Final 2.2 steps:

• [ ] Cherry pick critical bug fixings to stable-v2.2
• [ ] Testing & sign off
• [ ] Tag v2.2
• [ ] Make release on https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/releases
• [ ] signing of the FW, upload FW and topology binaries to internal release folder
• [ ] Make release on https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin
• [ ] Send the mail to ALSA mailing list?
• [ ] Declare the release on https://www.sofproject.org/blog/

[marc-hb]

Should this be part of https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/blob/main/HOWTO-new-release.md ?

[mengdonglin]

Should this be part of https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/blob/main/HOWTO-new-release.md ?

@marc-hb Do you mean we should list the required steps in https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/blob/main/HOWTO-new-release.md?

[marc-hb]

Yes or as another, template file close to it. Then for each release we can copy the template into a new issue like this one.

This would make the template reviewed, version controlled and available outside Github.

[mengdonglin]

Yes or as another, template file close to it. Then for each release we can copy the template into a new issue like this one.

This would make the template reviewed, version controlled and available outside Github.

@marc-hb Okay. I can work on PR to update in https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/blob/main/HOWTO-new-release.md

[lgirdwood]

Stable branch created.

[kv2019i]

https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/releases/tag/v2.2-rc1 created

[lgirdwood]

@mengdonglin any updates here ?

[mengdonglin]

Closing this as v2.2 was release.