4.17 Releng

[merks]

Tracks the release engineering activities for the 4.17 release.

[merks]

We have our first 4.17 nightly build available.

https://download.eclipse.org/birt/updates/nightly/latest

I recommend the BIRT developers pull master (sync your fork first if master comes from a fork) and use Help -> Perform Setup Tasks to perform the Modular Targlet task to have the latest target platform set up. Then happy developing for 4.17!

[merks]

FYI, I built our file 4.17 milestone:

https://download.eclipse.org/birt/updates/milestone/S202408270646

SimRel RC2/final contributions are next week, so I hope to wind down the BIRT release cycle around September 11th.

[merks]

SimRel releases today. I built another BIRT milestone yesterday.

@wimjongman @speckyspooky

When folks give the word I think we're ready for a release...

[wimjongman]

+1

[speckyspooky]

+1

[merks]

Guys, just to 100% sure, you are both 99.9% convinced the current milestone is stable and well-tested for any manual tests that the ci tests might not cover?

[wimjongman]

You are right, I did not look at the latest build. I will take it for a final spin.

[wimjongman]

The preview does not work anymore:

[merks]

@speckyspooky @wimjongman

This new milestone contains all the latest changes:

https://download.eclipse.org/birt/updates/milestone/S202409130914

Please give your thumbs up here or report any new problems. (Releases can't be unreleased, so test!)

[speckyspooky]

First note from my side to milestone release "S202409130914"

• BIRT designer: tested and running

  • designer: ok
  • preview/html: ok
  • pdf: ok
  • excel: ok
  • word: ok

• BIRT OSGi: tested and running

  • runnable with Tomcat 9.0.93: ok
  • creation of the root page: ok
  • execution of the 2 standard reports: ok
  • reserach of Tomcat logs: ok, no findings, no ERROR logging found

[merks]

@speckyspooky

That's great. 👍

At some point tomorrow, I'll assume @wimjongman is also good to go for the release with the current milestone...

[wimjongman]

I am.

[merks]

The release is published.

https://download.eclipse.org/birt/updates/release/4.17.0

I will shortly update all the versions and the target platform to produce the first nightly build of 4.18.0 and will track progress via issue #1910

[wimjongman]

Release 4.17 created: https://github.com/eclipse-birt/birt/releases/tag/4.17.0

[wimjongman]

Updated project releng: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.birt