Releasing Selenium (original) (raw)

Release criteria

While Selenium code is tied to Chrome versions, the goal is to release a minor version of Selenium between Early Stable and Stable release dates as specified in Chromium Release Schedule

Prerequisites

Click to see Java prerequisites

Java

  1. Get a Sonatype account. Go through the initial setup if you do not have a user
  2. Request push access via this ticket example.
  3. Install GnuPG. Detailed instructions can be seen here. Follow the section that mentions how to distribute GnuPG public key. GitHub also has good instructions to generate a key.
  4. Use mvn -emp to encrypt your passphrase
  5. Make sure your ~/.m2/settings.xml contains the following lines in the <servers> and <settingsSecurity> sections:
    <server>
        <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
        <username>_your-username-for-oss.sonatype.org_</username>
        <password>_your-password_</password>
    </server>
    <server>
        <id>sonatype-nexus-staging</id>
        <username>_your-username-for-oss.sonatype.org_</username>
        <password>_your-password_</password>
        <settingsSecurity>
            <master>{your_encrypted_passphrase}</master>
        </settingsSecurity>
    </server>

Click to see .NET prerequisites

.NET

To release a new version you will need to be registered as an owner on NugetObtain an API Key and store it in NUGET_API_KEY environment variable

Click to see Ruby prerequisites

Ruby

To release a new gem you will need to be registered as a gem owner on rubygems.orgGenerate an API key from rubygems and store it in GEM_HOST_API_KEY environment variable

Click to see Python prerequisites

Python

To release a new version you need to be registered as a Owner/Maintainer on pypi.python.orgCreate a token on pypi and put it in your .pypirc file. Make sure you have installed twine and it is available on your PATH (pip install twine)

Click to see JavaScript prerequisites

JavaScript

To release a new version you need to be registered as a Owner/Maintainer on npmjs

  1. Make sure you are authenticated to npmjs.com. You can do that with npm adduser
  2. Obtain an access token from npmjs
  3. Create or edit the .npmrc file in your project directory or home directory (~/.npmrc).
  4. Add a line with your token: //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=<YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>.

Release Preparation

Run Workflow

There is a GitHub Actions Workflow that can be manually executed to make all appropriate updates to files in preparation for a release.

This workflow:

Update Change logs

The GitHub workflow adds the commits to the change logs, but these need to be manually updated for format and clarity

  1. Pull the PR gh pr checkout <PR_NUMBER>
  2. Manually edit the change log files
  3. Push the changes git push

Merge PR

When all tests have passed and the change logs have been updated, merge the PR. This will be the commit that gets tagged and released.

Merging the PR will now kick off an additional workflow that will do the tagging, generate a draft Selenium Release with all assets and changes populated, and create a PR with updated API Docs.

Build and Publish

Minor Release

This command:

When everything is complete:

Patch Release

For the given language:

./go :version git commit -am "updating version to nightly" git push

Java

Whether major or minor release, Java has a few extra steps:

  1. Go to http://oss.sonatype.org, log in
  2. Navigate to https://oss.sonatype.org/#stagingRepositories
  3. Look in content and make sure all jars and signed files are there
  4. Close staging repository with message
  5. Wait for checks and click "release" button; if the "Release" button is not enabled, this means that the checks for the repo are still running, you can click on the activity tab to see what activities are pending. This normally takes a few minutes.

IE Driver Server

Click to see IE Driver release steps

  1. Update Atoms (optional)
    • bazel build //javascript/ie-driver:header
    • copy bazel-bin/javascript/ie-driver/atoms.h to cpp/iedriver/Generated directory
  2. Open cpp/IEDriverServer.sln in Visual Studio 2022
  3. In Solution Explorer tab, right click IEDriver/Resource Files/IEDriver.rc & view code
  4. Update version number in 4 places: FILEVERSION, PRODUCTVERSION, FileVersion, ProductVersion
  5. In Solution Explorer tab, right click IEDriverServer/Resource Files/IEDriverServer.rc & view code
  6. Update version number in 4 places: FILEVERSION, PRODUCTVERSION, FileVersion, ProductVersion
  7. Solution Configurations Dropdown in toolbar at top, select Release,
  8. In Solution Platform Dropdown, select x64 & in Build menu, select Build Solution
  9. In Solution Platform Dropdown, select x86 & in Build menu, select Build Solution
  10. In build/cpp/x64/Release/IEDriverServer.exe compress file as IEDriverServer_x64_x.y.z.zip & upload it to Github Release
  11. In build/cpp/Win32/Release/IEDriverServer.exe compress file as IEDriverServer_Win32_x.y.z.zip & upload it to Github Release

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