Avalon 8.0 Release

[joncameron]

Release Checklist

Code Changes

• Update code files with version number
• Update files with new year for license text (could wait until 2025)
• Tag dependency repos and update gemfile
• Merge develop into staging
• Merge staging into main

Application Testing

• Full Test Suite Completed (after merge to staging)

Documentation

• Update Known Issues documentation page
• Update configuration documentation
• Update current version number on the documentation wiki
• Update wiki with release notes (once the release is published on Github)
• Upgrade Instructions
• Create/update docs for adding Sharepoint as a Browse Everything source and config
  • Merge https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AVALON/pages/1957954421/Google+Drive+Dropbox into a new "storage sources" config page including Sharepoint info

Release and Documentation

• Write a draft of release notes on Github
• Publish release in Github (create tag as well, if the release is not already tagged) https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases
• put link in release notes to Github-provided changelog (i.e. v7.7.2...v7.8)
• Update avalon-docker to point at new release docker tag and github tag
  • Review submitted changes to avalon-terraform and other small docker-related changes
  • Chris to write up issue for Fedora 6 and avalon containers
• Add bundling of db gems to docker image (nice to do, not required for 8.0 - Chris will create a standalone issue)
• Rebuild develop from main (our git flow)
• Deploy release to demo.avalonmediasystem.org

Website and Outreach

• Publish blog post announcing the release
• Update homepage with blog post for release announcement
• Update homepage with the updated version and documentation links
• Send announcement email to Samvera community mailing lists
• Send announcement to avalon-l mailing list
• Post announcement in Slack, including Samvera community channels and the avalon public channel