[Releasing] [Development] First Qt 5.9.1 snapshot available

[Jani Heikkinen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: André Hartmann [mailto:aha_1980 at gmx.de]
> Sent: sunnuntai 18. kesäkuuta 2017 18.25
> To: Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io>; development at qt-project.org;
> interest at qt-project.org
> Cc: releasing at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] First Qt 5.9.1 snapshot available
> 
> Hi Jani,
> 
> I've got two questions regarding the 5.9.1 release:
> 
> 1. There have been no "changes file" templates provided so far. I guess this
> will lead to last-minute hectic if you want to release in June. It would be good
> to have such templates as soon as the release branch is created.

To be honest, it should be maintainers who does these change files from the begining, not the release team. But because it seems to be really hard to be done we in the release team have done these initial ones lately. Doing these too early won't help at all because many changes might be missing and that's why we are planning to do these immediately after branching from '5.9' -> '5.9.1' is finalized. I know it will be tight but let's try to get it done really quickly at this time. But to be honest we need to find a better way to do this now when we are trying to do these reqular patch level releases...

> 
> 2. For 5.8.0, I saw that binary compatibility files were added. Did I miss
> something or is this discontinued for 5.9.0? How do you assure BC during the
> 5.9 patch releases?
> 

No, this is continuing. 5.9.0 bc files are still missing and 5.9.1 is still compared to 5.8.0. 5.9.0 bc files will be added as soon as possible

br,
Jani


> Best regards,
> André
> 
> Am 14.06.2017 um 08:00 schrieb Jani Heikkinen:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have first Qt 5.9.1 snapshot available via online installer. It is
> > a separate 5.9.1 node, not as an update to Qt 5.9.0. Instructions how
> > to install it here:
> > https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_get_snapshot_via_online_installer
> >
> > Content of the snapshot is based on https://codereview.qt-
> project.org/#/c/196614/, delta to Qt 5.9.0 as an attachment.
> >
> > RTA testing is ongoing and snapshot seems to be pretty much OK. So
> > please test the snapshot & report your effort via
> > https://wiki.qt.io/Qt59_release_testing
> >
> > And please note: We will do regular patch releases for 5.9 series and
> > so on we won't block the release because of old issues. Qt 5.9.1 is
> > released on June and 5.9.2 is targeted to be released on August so if
> > there is still bad issues open in 5.9.1 there is time to fix those for
> > soon coming Qt 5.9.2 (or even Qt 5.9.3 which should be out
> > ~September...)
> >
> > br,
> > Jani
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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