3.1.2 & 3.1.3-RC1 Release procedure

• Close corresponding milestone
• Publish 3.1.2 artifacts to Maven via CI
  • On release-3.1.2 branch
    • In Build.scala: Set baseVersion to 3.1.2
    • In Build.scala: Set previousDottyVersion to 3.1.1
    • In tasty/src/dotty/tools/tasty/TastyFormat.scala: Set ExperimentalVersion to 0 to indicate a stable release; make sure MajorVersion and MinorVersion are set correctly for the release.
    • Tag the branch as 3.1.2
  • Publish changelog for 3.1.2 on GitHub Releases
• Publish 3.1.3-RC1 artifacts to Maven via CI
  • Create branch release-3.1.3 from master
  • On that branch
    • In tasty/src/dotty/tools/tasty/TastyFormat.scala: Set ExperimentalVersion to 0 to indicate a stable release; make sure MajorVersion and MinorVersion are set correctly for the release.
    • Tag the branch as 3.1.3-RC1
• On master:
  • In Build.scala: Set previousDottyVersion to 3.1.2
  • In Build.scala: Set referenceVersion to 3.1.3-RC1
  • In project/MiMaFilters.scala: Remove all exclude filters
  • In Build.scala: Set baseVersion to 3.2.0-RC1
  • In tasty/src/dotty/tools/tasty/TastyFormat.scala: make sure MajorVersion and MinorVersion are set correctly for the 3.2.0.
• Release ecosystem for 3.1.2
• Wait for confirmation from tooling:
  • Metals
  • Scala CLI
  • Scala Native
  • SBT (support for release flags)
• Notify Scala Steward
• Release to SDKMAN
• Publish API docs for 3.1.2 stdlib
• Announce the releases
  • Publish Blog Post on dotty.epfl.ch (https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/14614)
  • Make an announcement thread on https://contributors.scala-lang.org
  • Tweet the announcement blog post on https://twitter.com/scala_lang

[Kordyjan]

A wild blocker appeared!

Sadly we need to wait for https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/14736 and RC3.

[smarter]

[X] Close corresponding milestone

3.1.3-RC1 wasn’t closed, so I just closed it and opened 3.1.3 to track backports.