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Release Guide

New development takes place on the master branch. Once the developers have rough consensus we create a new stable release on GitHub, following the v0.x.y tag syntax. The MNE-CPP stable release steps are:

  1. (Manually) Increment version number in mne-cpp.pri and mne-cpp_doxyfile by 0.x.y.
  2. (Manually) Change version numbers of applications, e.g., MNE Scan and MNE Analyze.
  3. (Manually) Prepare and update the release table.
  4. (Manually) Prepare and update the changelog.
  5. (Manually) Create release with tag v0.x.y via Github.
  6. (Automated by release.yml) Create a new branch named v0.x.y based on current master branch. A new branch is only created for minor version releases, e.g., going from v0.1.0 to v0.2.0.
  7. (Automated by release.yml) Build dynamically as well as statically linked binaries and upload them to the v0.x.y release on Github.
  8. (Manually) In case of a minor or major version bump, create branch protection rules for the newly created branch via the Github web interface.