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Check all Vega project versions are up-to-date. See NOTES_FOR_MAINTAINERS.md
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Make sure to have an environment set up with
hatch
installed. See CONTRIBUTING.md. Remove any existing environments managed byhatch
so that it will create new ones with the latest dependencies when executing the commands further below:hatch env prune
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Make certain your branch is in sync with head, and that you have no uncommitted modifications. If you work on a fork, replace
origin
withupstream
:git checkout main git pull origin main git status # Should show "nothing to commit, working tree clean"
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Do a clean doc build:
hatch run doc:clean-all hatch run doc:build-html hatch run doc:serve
Navigate to http://localhost:8000 and ensure it looks OK (particularly do a visual scan of the gallery thumbnails).
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Create a new release branch:
git switch -c version_5.0.0
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Update version to, e.g. 5.0.0:
- in
altair/__init__.py
- in
doc/conf.py
- in
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Commit changes and push:
git add . -u git commit -m "chore: Bump version to 5.0.0" git push
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Merge release branch into main, make sure that all required checks pass
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On main, build source & wheel distributions. If you work on a fork, replace
origin
withupstream
:git switch main git pull origin main hatch clean # clean old builds & distributions hatch build # create a source distribution and universal wheel
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publish to PyPI (Requires correct PyPI owner permissions):
hatch publish
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build and publish docs (Requires write-access to altair-viz/altair-viz.github.io):
hatch run doc:publish-clean-build
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On main, tag the release. If you work on a fork, replace
origin
withupstream
:git tag -a v5.0.0 -m "Version 5.0.0 release" git push origin v5.0.0
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Create a new branch:
git switch -c maint_5.1.0dev
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Update version and add 'dev' suffix, e.g. 5.1.0dev:
- in
altair/__init__.py
- in
doc/conf.py
- in
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Commit changes and push:
git add . -u git commit -m "chore: Bump version to 5.1.0dev" git push
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Merge maintenance branch into main
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Double-check that a conda-forge pull request is generated from the updated pip package by the conda-forge bot (may take up to several hours): https://github.com/conda-forge/altair-feedstock/pulls
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Publish a new release in https://github.com/vega/altair/releases/