Releasing NumExpr

Author: Robert A. McLeod, Francesc Alted
Contact: faltet@gmail.com
Date: 2024-06-20

Following are notes for releasing NumExpr.

Preliminaries

Make sure that RELEASE_NOTES.rst and ANNOUNCE.rst are up-to-date with the latest news in the release.
Ensure that the new version number in VERSION is correct.
Do a commit and a push:

git commit -a -m "Getting ready for release X.Y.Z"
If the directories dist or artifact exist delete them.

Local Testing

Re-compile locally with MKL support and see if all tests passes as well.
Run all the benchmarks in bench/ directory and see if the speed-ups are the expected ones.

Tagging

Create a tag vX.Y.Z from master and push the tag to GitHub:

git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m "Tagging version X.Y.Z" git push git push --tags
If you happen to have to delete the tag, such as artifacts demonstrates a fault, first delete it locally,

git tag --delete vX.Y.Z

and then remotely on Github,

git push --delete origin vX.Y.Z

Build Wheels

Check on GitHub Actions github.com/pydata/numexpr that all the wheels built successfully.
Download artifacts.zip and unzip, you should find the source tarball and all wheels.

Releasing

Upload the built wheels to PyPi via Twine.

twine upload --repository numexpr artifact/numexpr*.whl
Upload the source distribution.

twine upload --repository numexpr artifact/numexpr*.tar.gz
Check on pypi.org/project/numexpr/#files that the wheels and source have uploaded as expected.

Announcing

Send an announcement to the NumPy list, PyData and python-announce list. Use the ANNOUNCE.rst file as skeleton (or possibly as the definitive version). Email should be addressed to the following lists:

Post-release actions

Add .dev0 to the version number in VERSION, and bump the bugfix version number.
Create new headers for adding new features in RELEASE_NOTES.rst and add this place-holder:

* **Under development.**
Commit your changes:

git commit -a -m "Post X.Y.Z release actions done" git push

Fin.