Release 7.4

• Scope of the release:
• Release Candidate
  • 1. Branches
  • 2. Housekeeping
  • 3. Actual release
  • 4. Publish and plan next release
• Release
  • 1. Branches
  • 2. Housekeeping
  • 3. Actual release
  • 4. Publish and plan next release

We are ready to release OTB version 7.4.0. The following steps need to be done:

Scope of the release:

• !828 (merged): New TerraSarX sensor model, based on the unfinished work of !553 (closed)
• !833 (merged): Add deprecate tags in preparation for release 8.0.0
• !838 (merged): ExtractROI: Test points inversion on index instead of coordinate
• !840 (merged): Remove the "working around a kernel bug" warning during OTB binary package installation
• !839 (merged): Rename the noise parameter in SARCalibration
• !831 (merged): bug fixes in Sentinel 1 calibration
• !836 (merged): Use Horner method for polynomial evaluation in SAR calibration
• !835 (merged): Update geotiff in the Superbuild
• !837 (merged): Fix Superbuild compilation with gcc-8
• backport of !821 (merged): update expat
• backport of !788 (merged): Fix build issue when libSVM is OFF or libsiftfast is OFF and Testing ON
• backport of !822 (merged): Update openCV version to 4.5.1 for the SuperBuild

Release Candidate

1. Branches

• (if major or minor release) Feature freeze: create the new release branch
• (if patch release) Work on the already existing branch release-7-4
• Make sure the version number in CMakeLists.txt is 7.4.0

2. Housekeeping

• In this story, make a list of blocking issues for the release (if any)
• Update release notes (walk the GitLab MR merged history and log all improvements)
• Update the date in RELEASE_NOTES.txt
• Check SonarQube
• Run Debian spelling checker
• Run shellcheck script from OTB-Devutils/Scripts/
• Update translation for Monteverdi and Mapla
• Sanity check the binary packages
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • Test QGIS on qgis docker image

3. Actual release

Once all blocking issues are closed, and the previous steps are done:

• Tag the release candidate
• Update GIT_TAG for all official remote modules (if needed)

4. Publish and plan next release

• Prepare and upload source packages
• Promote staging packages
• Update documentation
  • Cookbook
  • Doxygen
• Update the SuperBuild archive
• Release Candidate announcement on the forum

Release

1. Branches

• Make sure the version number in CMakeLists.txt is 7.4.0

2. Housekeeping

• In this story, make a list of blocking issues for the release (if any)
• Fix compilation warnings on CI
• Update release notes (walk the GitLab MR merged history and log all improvements)
• Update the date in RELEASE_NOTES.txt
• Check SonarQube
• Run Debian spelling checker
• Run shellcheck script from OTB-Devutils/Scripts/
• Update translation for Monteverdi and Mapla
• Sanity check the binary packages
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • Test QGIS on qgis docker image

3. Actual release

Once all blocking issues are closed, and the previous steps are done:

• Tag the release
• (if major or minor release): Merge the release into develop
• (if it's the latest release): Merge the release into master
• (if patch release): Backport fixes
• Update GIT_TAG for all official remote modules (if needed)

4. Publish and plan next release

• Prepare and upload source packages
• Promote staging packages
• Update documentation
  • Cookbook
  • Doxygen
  • WordPress page "Home" and "Download" pages
• Upload OTB source archive to Zenodo to create a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
• Update the SuperBuild archive
• Release announcement
  • On the forum
  • On the blog
  • On Twitter
• Forward announcement to news_item@osgeo.org (OSGeo news)
• Remove public branches related to MR or bugfix merged before the release

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marked the checklist item !828 (merged): New TerraSarX sensor model, based on the unfinished work of !553 (closed) as completed

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