6.0 check list

[lrineau]

Previous release: #6453

Next release: #8223

Before the beta release

• [x] Update of the Supported platforms.
• [x] Update the Installation/lib/cmake/CGAL/CGALConfigVersion.cmake
• [x] Update the file Installation/include/CGAL/version.h
• [x] change the crontab to add --beta 1 --public to the command line
• [X] Diff of the change log of 6.0 with 5.6 to check only 6.0 was modified.
• [X] Add links to the file CHANGES.md https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/pull/8226
• [X] Rewrap the file CHANGES.md https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/pull/8226
• [X] Reorder the file CHANGES.md https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/pull/8226
• [x] Update Documentation/doc/resources/1.8.13/menu_version.js and the other three copies
• [x] Prepare the announcement mail of the beta release
• [x] Prepare the modification of the web site, in upcoming (announcement plus release graph)
• [x] open the milestone for the release
• [x] Create new tables for features/small features with closed review for the next release
• [ ] Update release creation script to upload doc with MathJax version (was done manually in 5.6)
• [x] @soesau update changes.md with information on the 2 kinetic packages

After the beta release

• [x] change the crontab to add --beta 2 to the command line
• [x] Update the file Installation/include/CGAL/version.h (for header-only)
• [x] Update the file Installation/lib/cmake/CGAL/CGALConfigVersion.cmake
• [x] clone the milestone
• [ ] PR for brew package:
• [ ] PR for vcpkg:
• [ ] RPM for Fedora:
• [ ] Update https://cgal.geometryfactory.com/CGAL/Members/wiki/Releases
• [x] Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (active-beta-release)
• [x] Email announcement
• [x] Upload the pre-compiled demos
• [ ] Check the pre-compiled demos run correctly

Before the official release

• [x] Update the file Installation/include/CGAL/version.h (for header-only)
• [x] Update the file Installation/lib/cmake/CGAL/CGALConfigVersion.cmake
• [x] change the crontab to remove --beta 1 from the command line
• [x] Update menu_version.js in the documentation.
• [x] prepare the announcement email

After the official release

• [x] Tag PRs with bash tag_pr_per_release.sh (see https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/pull/4000)
• [x] Update /home/lrineau/CGAL/create_internal_release on cgal.gf.com
• [x] Update the bug-fix number in the branch
• [x] Update https://cgal.geometryfactory.com/CGAL/Members/wiki/Releases
• [x] Update https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/wiki/Internal-Releases
• [x] Create a new issue for the check list of the next release
• [x] Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-release) + remove the beta flag (active-beta-release)
• [x] Update Github Action workflow files of cgal-swig-bindings: https://github.com/CGAL/cgal-swig-bindings/pull/276
• [x] Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
• [x] update PR for brew package: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/192120
• [x] update PR for vcpkg: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/41300
• [x] add PR for Conan: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/pull/25637
• [x] check PRs for Conda: https://github.com/conda-forge/cgal-cpp-feedstock/pull/40 and https://github.com/conda-forge/cgal-feedstock/pull/98.
• [x] #8552
• [x] Add news entry for cgal-web
• [x] Email announcement
• [ ] Update https://geometryfactory.com/ with news from GF.

# After 6.0.1
- [x] Tag PRs with `bash tag_pr_per_release.sh` (see https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/pull/4000)
- [x] Update the bug-fix number in the branch
- [x] Update https://cgal.geometryfactory.com/CGAL/Members/wiki/Releases
- [x] Update the Github milestone
- [x] Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-release) + remove the beta flag (latest-beta-release)
- [ ] Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
- [x] update PR for brew package: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/195228
- [x] update PR for vcpkg: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/41845
- [x] add PR for Conan: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/pull/25751
- [x] check PR for Conda:  https://github.com/conda-forge/cgal-cpp-feedstock/pull/41 and https://github.com/conda-forge/cgal-feedstock/pull/99
- [x] update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-553d896483
- [x] Add news entry for cgal-web
- [x] Email announcement

# After a bug-fix release 6.0.x
- [ ] Tag PRs with `bash tag_pr_per_release.sh` (see https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/pull/4000)
- [ ] Update the bug-fix number in the branch
- [ ] Update https://cgal.geometryfactory.com/CGAL/Members/wiki/Releases
- [ ] Update the Github milestone 
- [ ] Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-release) + remove the beta flag (latest-beta-release)
- [ ] Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
- [ ] update PR for brew package: 
- [ ] update PR for vcpkg: 
- [ ] add PR for Conan at https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index
- [ ] check PR for Conda at https://github.com/conda-forge/cgal-cpp-feedstock (a bot usual adds a PR)
- [ ] update RPM for Fedora: 
- [ ] Add news entry for cgal-web
- [ ] Email announcement

[angus-3d]

@lrineau Any chance we can get vcpkg updated?

[sloriot]

@lrineau Any chance we can get vcpkg updated?

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/pull/41845 has been merged 3 weeks ago so it should be available.

[lrineau]

@lrineau Any chance we can get vcpkg updated?

It is already updated. Check the vcpkg documentation, for example the vcpkg update command.

[lrineau@fernand]~/Git/vcpkg% ./vcpkg search cgal
cgal                     6.0.1            The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL) is a C++ library that...
cgal[qt]                                  Qt GUI support for CGAL
libigl[cgal]                              Build with cgal
The result may be outdated. Run `git pull` to get the latest results.
If your port is not listed, please open an issue at and/or consider making a pull request.  -  https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/issues

If you see something different, then you need to use git pull in your vcpkg installation directory.