Release 23 Checklist

[carlosribas]

Testing

• [x] Update wwwdev search index
• [x] Update database versions in config/expert_databases.py - especially FlyBase and Ensembl
• [x] Update test website
• [x] Update text search export files
• [x] Create and populate .release FTP directory
• [x] Add release graphic
• [x] Update release number in website header
• [x] Update About Us page (timeline and database growth charts)
• [x] Update RELEASE_ANNOUNCEMENT_URL
• [x] Update sequence search fasta files in TEST
• [x] Update release number in sequence search results metadata file
• [x] Update the fasta file stored in PVC - HX cluster (rnacentral_species_specific_ids)

Pre Announce (silent release)

• [x] Update Postgres web databases (HH and FB)
• [x] Update public Postgres database
• [x] Copy postgres dump into FTP
• [x] Update web VMs
• [x] Update the fasta file stored in PVC - HH cluster (rnacentral_species_specific_ids)
• [x] Update sequence search fasta files in PROD
• [x] Update release number in sequence search results metadata file in PROD
• [x] Move.release FTP directory to release
• [x] Update sitemap

Announce

• [x] Update current_release FTP symlink
• [x] Publish blog post
• [x] Announce on the mailing list
• [x] Post on Twitter
• [x] Backup old text-search files
• [x] Copy dev-nightly search files to nightly (except genes_* files)

Post Announce

• [x] Merge release-23 into master
• [x] Switch to nightly text search index
• [x] Close GitHub release project
• [x] Review GitHub issues
• [x] Sync PRO, DEV, and TEST databases
• [x] Review documentation (RNAcentral Help and Train Online)
• [x] Create release checklist for the next release
• [x] Update sequence search on GCP