Release Process

update translations (ping wumpus, Diapolo or tcatm on IRC)
see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/translation_process.md#syncing-with-transifex

###update (commit) version in sources

contrib/verifysfbinaries/verify.sh
doc/README*
share/setup.nsi
src/clientversion.h (change CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE to true)

###tag version in git

git tag -s v(new version, e.g. 0.8.0)

###write release notes. git shortlog helps a lot, for example:

git shortlog --no-merges v(current version, e.g. 0.7.2)..v(new version, e.g. 0.8.0)

###perform gitian builds

From a directory containing the bitcoin source, gitian-builder and gitian.sigs

export SIGNER=(your gitian key, ie bluematt, sipa, etc)
export VERSION=(new version, e.g. 0.8.0)
pushd ./bitcoin
git checkout v${VERSION}
popd
pushd ./gitian-builder

###fetch and build inputs: (first time, or when dependency versions change)

mkdir -p inputs; cd inputs/

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/download.action?path=Developer_Tools/xcode_4.6.3/xcode4630916281a.dmg

Using a Mac, create a tarball for the 10.7 SDK and copy it to the inputs directory:

tar -C /Volumes/Xcode/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/ -czf MacOSX10.7.sdk.tar.gz MacOSX10.7.sdk

Download remaining inputs, and build everything:

wget 'http://miniupnp.free.fr/files/download.php?file=miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz' -O miniupnpc-1.9.tar.gz
wget 'https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1h.tar.gz'
wget 'http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.8.30.NC.tar.gz'
wget 'http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz'
wget 'ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png/src/history/libpng16/libpng-1.6.8.tar.gz'
wget 'https://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/qrencode-3.4.3.tar.bz2'
wget 'https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.55.0/boost_1_55_0.tar.bz2'
wget 'https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/raw-attachment/ticket/7262/boost-mingw.patch' -O boost-mingw-gas-cross-compile-2013-03-03.patch
wget 'https://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.2/5.2.0/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.2.0.tar.gz'
wget 'https://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.2/5.2.1/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.2.1.tar.gz'
wget 'https://download.qt-project.org/archive/qt/4.6/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.4.tar.gz'
wget 'https://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2'
wget 'https://github.com/mingwandroid/toolchain4/archive/10cc648683617cca8bcbeae507888099b41b530c.tar.gz'
wget 'http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/cctools/cctools-809.tar.gz'
wget 'http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/dyld/dyld-195.5.tar.gz'
wget 'http://www.opensource.apple.com/tarballs/ld64/ld64-127.2.tar.gz'
wget 'http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/cdrkit/cdrkit-1.1.11.tar.gz/efe08e2f3ca478486037b053acd512e9/cdrkit-1.1.11.tar.gz'
wget 'https://github.com/theuni/libdmg-hfsplus/archive/libdmg-hfsplus-v0.1.tar.gz'
wget 'http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/clang+llvm-3.2-x86-linux-ubuntu-12.04.tar.gz' -O clang-llvm-3.2-x86-linux-ubuntu-12.04.tar.gz
wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theuni/osx-cross-depends/master/patches/cdrtools/genisoimage.diff' -O cdrkit-deterministic.patch
cd ..
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/boost-linux.yml
mv build/out/boost-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/deps-linux.yml
mv build/out/bitcoin-deps-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/qt-linux.yml
mv build/out/qt-*.tar.gz inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/boost-win.yml
mv build/out/boost-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/deps-win.yml
mv build/out/bitcoin-deps-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/qt-win.yml
mv build/out/qt-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/protobuf-win.yml
mv build/out/protobuf-*.zip inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-native.yml
mv build/out/osx-*.tar.gz inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-depends.yml
mv build/out/osx-*.tar.gz inputs/
./bin/gbuild ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-qt.yml
mv build/out/osx-*.tar.gz inputs/

The expected SHA256 hashes of the intermediate inputs are:

f29b7d9577417333fb56e023c2977f5726a7c297f320b175a4108cf7cd4c2d29  boost-linux32-1.55.0-gitian-r1.zip
88232451c4104f7eb16e469ac6474fd1231bd485687253f7b2bdf46c0781d535  boost-linux64-1.55.0-gitian-r1.zip
46710f673467e367738d8806e45b4cb5931aaeea61f4b6b55a68eea56d5006c5  bitcoin-deps-linux32-gitian-r6.zip
f03be39fb26670243d3a659e64d18e19d03dec5c11e9912011107768390b5268  bitcoin-deps-linux64-gitian-r6.zip
57e57dbdadc818cd270e7e00500a5e1085b3bcbdef69a885f0fb7573a8d987e1  qt-linux32-4.6.4-gitian-r1.tar.gz
60eb4b9c5779580b7d66529efa5b2836ba1a70edde2a0f3f696d647906a826be  qt-linux64-4.6.4-gitian-r1.tar.gz
60dc2d3b61e9c7d5dbe2f90d5955772ad748a47918ff2d8b74e8db9b1b91c909  boost-win32-1.55.0-gitian-r6.zip
f65fcaf346bc7b73bc8db3a8614f4f6bee2f61fcbe495e9881133a7c2612a167  boost-win64-1.55.0-gitian-r6.zip
70de248cd0dd7e7476194129e818402e974ca9c5751cbf591644dc9f332d3b59  bitcoin-deps-win32-gitian-r13.zip
9eace4c76f639f4f3580a478eee4f50246e1bbb5ccdcf37a158261a5a3fa3e65  bitcoin-deps-win64-gitian-r13.zip
963e3e5e85879010a91143c90a711a5d1d5aba992e38672cdf7b54e42c56b2f1  qt-win32-5.2.0-gitian-r3.zip
751c579830d173ef3e6f194e83d18b92ebef6df03289db13ab77a52b6bc86ef0  qt-win64-5.2.0-gitian-r3.zip
e2e403e1a08869c7eed4d4293bce13d51ec6a63592918b90ae215a0eceb44cb4  protobuf-win32-2.5.0-gitian-r4.zip
a0999037e8b0ef9ade13efd88fee261ba401f5ca910068b7e0cd3262ba667db0  protobuf-win64-2.5.0-gitian-r4.zip
512bc0622c883e2e0f4cbc3fedfd8c2402d06c004ce6fb32303cc2a6f405b6df  osx-native-depends-r3.tar.gz
927e4b222be6d590b4bc2fc185872a5d0ca5c322adb983764d3ed84be6bdbc81  osx-depends-r4.tar.gz
ec95abef1df2b096a970359787c01d8c45e2a4475b7ae34e12c022634fbdba8a  osx-depends-qt-5.2.1-r4.tar.gz

Build Bitcoin Core for Linux, Windows, and OS X:

./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION}-linux --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-linux.yml
pushd build/out
zip -r bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux-gitian.zip *
mv bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux-gitian.zip ../../../
popd
./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION}-win --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-win.yml
pushd build/out
zip -r bitcoin-${VERSION}-win-gitian.zip *
mv bitcoin-${VERSION}-win-gitian.zip ../../../
popd
    ./bin/gbuild --commit bitcoin=v${VERSION} ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-bitcoin.yml
    ./bin/gsign --signer $SIGNER --release ${VERSION}-osx --destination ../gitian.sigs/ ../bitcoin/contrib/gitian-descriptors/gitian-osx-bitcoin.yml
pushd build/out
mv Bitcoin-Qt.dmg ../../../
popd
popd

Build output expected:

linux 32-bit and 64-bit binaries + source (bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux-gitian.zip)
windows 32-bit and 64-bit binaries + installer + source (bitcoin-${VERSION}-win-gitian.zip)
OSX installer (Bitcoin-Qt.dmg)
Gitian signatures (in gitian.sigs/${VERSION}-<linux|win|osx>/(your gitian key)/

repackage gitian builds for release as stand-alone zip/tar/installer exe

Linux .tar.gz:

unzip bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux-gitian.zip -d bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux
tar czvf bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux.tar.gz bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux
rm -rf bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux

Windows .zip and setup.exe:

unzip bitcoin-${VERSION}-win-gitian.zip -d bitcoin-${VERSION}-win
mv bitcoin-${VERSION}-win/bitcoin-*-setup.exe .
zip -r bitcoin-${VERSION}-win.zip bitcoin-${VERSION}-win
rm -rf bitcoin-${VERSION}-win

Mac OS X .dmg:

mv Bitcoin-Qt.dmg bitcoin-${VERSION}-osx.dmg

###Next steps:

Commit your signature to gitian.sigs:

pushd gitian.sigs
git add ${VERSION}-linux/${SIGNER}
git add ${VERSION}-win/${SIGNER}
git add ${VERSION}-osx/${SIGNER}
git commit -a
git push  # Assuming you can push to the gitian.sigs tree
popd

After 3 or more people have gitian-built and their results match:

Perform code-signing.
- Code-sign Windows -setup.exe (in a Windows virtual machine using signtool)
- Code-sign MacOSX .dmg
Note: only Gavin has the code-signing keys currently.
Create SHA256SUMS.asc for the builds, and GPG-sign it:

sha256sum * > SHA256SUMS
gpg --digest-algo sha256 --clearsign SHA256SUMS # outputs SHA256SUMS.asc
rm SHA256SUMS

(the digest algorithm is forced to sha256 to avoid confusion of the Hash: header that GPG adds with the SHA256 used for the files)

Upload zips and installers, as well as SHA256SUMS.asc from last step, to the bitcoin.org server
Update bitcoin.org version
- Make a pull request to add a file named YYYY-MM-DD-vX.Y.Z.md with the release notes to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/tree/master/_releases (Example for 0.9.2.1).
- After the pull request is merged, the website will automatically show the newest version, as well as update the OS download links. Ping Saivann in case anything goes wrong
Announce the release:
- Release sticky on bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0
- Bitcoin-development mailing list
- Update title of #bitcoin on Freenode IRC
- Optionally reddit /r/Bitcoin, ... but this will usually sort out itself
Notify BlueMatt so that he can start building [https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin](the PPAs)
Add release notes for the new version to the directory doc/release-notes in git master
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After 3 or more people have gitian-built and their results match:

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