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[ ] Generate a Personal Access Token with `repo` and `workflow` permissions. They can be generated from this page: https://github.com/settings/tokens. See https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/managing-your-personal-access-tokens for details. if you don't have one already. [ ] Become a maintainer (or an owner) of the package. for use during the release. You need to have a GPG key to sign the release artifacts. Please be aware of the ASF-wide [release signing guidelines](https://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html). If you dont have a GPG key associated with your Apache account, you must now create one according to the guidelines. Run the following helper script, or you can open it and run the commands individually (helpful if it doesn't work as intended or if you already are partially set up) ./release/src/main/scripts/preparationbeforerelease.sh __NOTE__: When generating the key, please make sure you choose the key type as RSA and RSA (default) and key size as 4096 bit. Now you should have: [ ] A GPG key meeting ASF guidelines [ ] The key added to and NOTE: Only PMC can write into . [ ] The `user.signingkey` set in your `.gitconfig` [ ] `gpg-agent` with the key loaded You may need your Key ID for future steps. Determine your Apache GPG Key and Key ID as follows: gpg --list-sigs --keyid-format LONG This will list your GPG keys. One of these should reflect your Apache account, for example: -- pub rsa4096/845E6689845E6689 2016-02-23 uid Nomen Nescio <anonymous@apache.org> sub rsa4096/BA4D50BEBA4D50BE 2016-02-23 Here, the key ID is the 16-digit hex string in the `pub` line: `845E6689845E6689`. In order to make yourself have right permission to stage java artifacts in Apache Nexus staging repository, please submit your GPG public key into the . You will need to use an ascii-armored version of your key. This can be obtained by running: gpg --export --armor Copying the whole block including `--START PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK--` and `--END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK--` Configure access to the [Apache Nexus repository](https://repository.apache.org/), which enables final deployment of releases to the Maven Central Repository. Log in with your Apache account. Confirm you have appropriate access by finding `org.apache.beam` under `Staging Profiles`. Navigate to your `Profile` (top right dropdown menu of the page). Choose `User Token` from the dropdown, then click `Access User Token`. Copy a snippet of the Maven XML configuration block. Insert this snippet twice into your global Maven `settings.xml` file, typically `${HOME}/.m2/settings.xml`. The end result should look like this, where `TOKENNAME` and `TOKENPASSWORD` are your secret tokens: <!-- make sure you have the root `settings node: --> <settings> <servers> <server> <id>apache.releases.https</id> <username>TOKEN_NAME</username> <password>TOKEN_PASSWORD</password> </server> <server> <id>apache.snapshots.https</id> <username>TOKEN_NAME</username> <password>TOKEN_PASSWORD</password> </server> </servers> </settings> Each language has routine dependency maintenance that you should check now. Go makes security patch releases of their tooling. This potentially affects container bootloader security, and at the least can cause false positives when an default-configuration scanner is pointed at our containers. Ideally, we upgrade as soon as possible, but it is also good to ensure we are up to date for each release. See if https://go.dev/doc/devel/release has a newer release. Update throughout Beam. See example at https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/27900/files Note Wait until the proposed branch cut day! We cut the release branch on time and do not block/delay branch cut for incoming fixes. This is because bugs are always being introduced as part of normal development. We cut the branch to prevent new bugs being introduced and then we fix and cherrypick any truly release-blocking problems. [ ] Run (click `run workflow`) The final state of the repository after release branch is cut should match this diagram: <img

alt="Increment minor version on master branch and set Dataflow container version on release branch" width="100%"> This should be accomplished by the workflow. The following must be manually done or confirmed: [ ] The `master` branch has the SNAPSHOT/dev version incremented. [ ] The release branch has the SNAPSHOT/dev version to be released. [ ] The Dataflow container image should be modified to the version to be released. [ ] Due to current limitation in the workflow, you must navigate to https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/workflows/beamReleaseNightlySnapshot.yml and click "Run workflow" and select the branch just created (release-2.xx.0) to build a snapshot. [ ] Manually update `CHANGES.md` on `master` by adding a new section for the next release (). The dev@ mailing list should be informed about the release branch being cut. Alongside with this note, a list of pending issues and to-be-triaged issues should be included. Afterwards, this list can be refined and updated by the release manager and the Beam community. [ ] Community agrees to release [ ] Community selects a committer (you) as Release Manager [ ] Next release has a milestone in github. [ ] You have your various account credentials prepared. [ ] You checked the dependency maintenance for each language. [ ] The release branch is created. [ ] The `master` branch is moved along to the next release. [ ] You have informed `dev@beam.apache.org` that you have cut the branch and are proceeding to stabilization Once the release branch is cut, your job is to make sure tests pass, fix bugs, confirm performance, defer feature requests, etc, until the branch is ready for the work of building a release candidate. After the release branch is cut, make sure it builds and has no significant issues that would block the creation of the release candidate. NOTE Dataflow tests will fail if the Dataflow worker container is not created and published by this time. Should be done by Google, in response to the creation of the release branch, and docker images are hosted. This should not block creation of the first release candidate, but should block approval of the release. Script: Usage Create a personal access token from your Github account. See instruction . It'll be used by the script for accessing Github API. You need to enable `repo` and `workflow` permissions for this token. Update required configurations listed in `RELEASEBUILDCONFIGS` in Then run ``` (cd release/src/main/scripts && ./verifyreleasebuild.sh) ``` Trigger all Github Action jobs from the PR created by the previous step. For GitHub Action jobs, they should be triggered by the pullrequesttarget event of a specific placeholder file added to the PR (`release/triggeralltests.json`), so no additional action should be needed. Tasks included in the script Installs `hub` with your agreement and setup local git repo; Create a test PR against release branch; There are some projects that don't produce the artifacts, e.g. `beam-test-tools`, you may be able to ignore failures there. To triage the failures and narrow things down you may want to look at `settings.gradle.kts` and run the build only for the projects you're interested at the moment, e.g. `./gradlew :runners:java-fn-execution`. The `verifyreleasebuild.sh` script may include failing or flaky tests. For each of the failing tests create a GitHub Issue with the following properties: Issue Type:* Bug Summary:* Name of failing gradle task and name of failing test (where applicable) in form of :MyGradleProject:SomeGradleTask NameOfFailedTest: Short description of failure Priority:* P1 Component:* "test-failures" Milestone:* Release number of verified release branch Description:* Description of failure Check the Beam load tests for possible performance regressions. Measurements are available on

All Runners which publish data should be checked for the following, in both batch and streaming mode: and : Runtime, latency, checkpoint duration : Query runtime for all queries : Runtime If regressions are found, the release branch can still be created, but the regressions should be investigated and fixed as part of the release process. The role of the release manager is to file GitHub issues for each regression with the milestone set to the to-be-released version. The release manager oversees these just like any other issue marked with the milestone of the release. The mailing list should be informed to allow fixing the regressions in the course of the release. Issues should be filed and tagged with the milestone. There could be outstanding release-blocking issues, which should be triaged before proceeding to build a release candidate. We track them by assigning the blocked release to the issue's milestone before the issue is resolved. The release manager should triage what does and does not block a release. The list of release-blocking issues is available at the [milestone status page](https://github.com/apache/beam/milestones). Triage each unresolved issue with one of the following resolutions: An issue should not block the release if the problem exists in the current released version or is a bug in new functionality that does not exist in the current released version. An issue should be a blocker if the problem is a regression between the currently released version and the release in progress and has no easy workaround. For all GitHub issues: If the issue has been resolved and the GitHub issue was not updated, resolve it accordingly. For issues with type "Bug" or labeled "flaky": If the issue is a known continuously failing test, it is not acceptable to defer this until the next release. Please work with the Beam community to resolve the issue. If the issue is a known flaky test, make an attempt to delegate a fix. However, if the issue may take too long to fix (to the discretion of the release manager): Delegate manual testing of the flaky issue to ensure no release blocking issues. Update the milestone to the version of the next release. Please consider discussing this with stakeholders and the dev@ mailing list, as appropriate. For all other GitHub issues: If the issue has not been resolved and it is acceptable to defer this until the next release, update the milestone to the new version you just created. Please consider discussing this with stakeholders and the dev@ mailing list, as appropriate. If the issue has not been resolved and it is not acceptable to release until it is fixed, the release cannot proceed. Instead, work with the Beam community to resolve the issue. If there is a bug found in the RC creation process/tools, those issues should be considered high priority and fixed in 7 days. The release manager is empowered to triage issues, and accept or reject cherry-picks to the release branch. Cherry picks are necessary if there are outstanding issues at time of the release branch cut, or issues were found in verification. Check if there are outstanding cherry-picks into the release branch, [e.g. for `2.14.0`](https://github.com/apache/beam/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+base%3Arelease-2.14.0). Make sure they have blocker Issues attached and are OK to get into the release by checking with community if needed. You are encouraged to ask the following questions to be answered on each cherry-pick PR and you can choose to reject cherry-pick requests if these questions are not satisfactorilyanswered: Is this a regression from a previous release? (If no, fix could go to a newer version.) Is this a new feature or related to a new feature? (If yes, fix could go to a new

Would this impact production workloads for users? (E.g. if this is a direct runner only fix it may not need to be a cherry pick.) What percentage of users would be impacted by this issue if it is not fixed? (E.g. If this is predicted to be a small number it may not need to be a cherry pick.) Would it be possible for the impacted users to skip this version? (If users could skip this version, fix could go to a newer version.) It is important to accept major/blocking fixes to isolated issues to make a higher quality release. However, beyond that each cherry pick will increase the time required for the release and add more last minute code to the release branch. Neither late releases nor not fully tested code will provide positive user value. Tip: Another tool in your toolbox is the known issues section of the release blog. Consider adding known issues there for minor issues instead of accepting cherry picks to the release branch. From the release branch, building a candidate involves selecting a commit, tagging that commit, and building the various artifacts against that commit. You can also run verifications against the RC commit (verification will also occur during voting phase). [ ] There are no release blocking GitHub issues. [ ] There are no open pull requests to release branch. [ ] Release Managers GPG key is published to `dist.apache.org`. [ ] Release Managers GPG key is configured in `git` configuration. [ ] Set `SIGNING_KEY` to the public key of the Manager's GPG key. [ ] Release Manager has `org.apache.beam` listed under `Staging Profiles` in Nexus. [ ] Release Managers Nexus User Token is configured in `settings.xml`. [ ] Set `JAVAHOME` to JDK 8 (Example: `export JAVAHOME=/example/path/to/java/jdk8`). [ ] Have Java 11 installed. Release candidates are built from single tagged commits off the release branch. When you have identified a good commit on the release branch, run to set it up correctly. ./release/src/main/scripts/chooserccommit.sh \ --release "${RELEASE_VERSION}" \ --rc "${RC_NUM}" \ --commit "${COMMIT_REF}" \ --clone \ --push-tag You can do a dry run by omitting the `--push-tag` flag. Then it will only clone the repo, adjust the version, and add the tag locally. If it looks good, run it again with `--push-tag`. If you already have a clone that includes the `${COMMIT_REF}` then you can omit `--clone`. This is perfectly safe since the script does not depend on the current working tree. See the source of the script for more details, or to run commands manually in case of a problem. The final state of the repository after an RC commit is chosen should match this diagram: <img src="images/tag-rc-commit.png" alt="Set version to non-SNAPSHOT, non-dev, on tagged RC commit" width="100%" /> The following should be confirmed: [ ] The release branch is unchanged. [ ] There is a commit not on the release branch with the version adjusted. [ ] The RC tag points to that commit. Action (click `run workflow`) The action will: Clone the repo at the selected RC tag. Run gradle publish to push java artifacts into Maven staging repo. Build and push java and python source distribution into . Stage SDK docker images to [docker hub Apache organization](https://hub.docker.com/search?q=apache%2Fbeam&type=image). Build javadoc, pydoc, typedocs for a PR to update beam-site. NOTE: Do not merge this PR until after an RC has been approved (see "Finalize the Release"). . . At , visit each repository and navigate to "tags" tab. Verify images are pushed with tags: `${RELEASEVERSION}rc${RCNUM}` Verify that third party licenses are included in

You can do this with a simple script: RCTAG=${RELEASEVERSION}rc${RC_NUM} for pyver in 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11; do docker run --rm --entrypoint sh \ apache/beampython${pyver}sdk:${RC_TAG} \ -c 'ls -al /opt/apache/beam/thirdpartylicenses/ | wc -l' done for javaver in 8 11 17; do docker run --rm --entrypoint sh \ apache/beamjava${javaver}sdk:${RC_TAG} \ -c 'ls -al /opt/apache/beam/thirdpartylicenses/ | wc -l' done And you may choose to log in to the containers and inspect: docker run --rm -it --entrypoint=/bin/bash \ apache/beamjava${ver}sdk:${RC_TAG} ls -al /opt/apache/beam/thirdpartylicenses/ Log in to the website. Navigate to Build Promotion -> Staging Repositories (in the left sidebar). Select repository `orgapachebeam-NNNN`. Click the Close button. When prompted for a description, enter Apache Beam, version X, release candidate Y. Review all staged artifacts on `https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-NNNN/`. They should contain all relevant parts for each module, including `pom.xml`, jar, test jar, javadoc, etc. Artifact names should follow in which artifact name mirrors directory structure, e.g., `beam-sdks-java-io-kafka`. Carefully review any new artifacts. Some additional validation should be done during the rc validation step. This step uploads artifacts such as `apache-beam-${RELEASEVERSION}rc${RCNUM}` to PyPI, so the RC artifacts can be depended upon directly by consumers, for ease of RC verification. Action (click `run workflow`) The Action will: Download previously build python binary artifacts Deploy release candidate to PyPI with an `rc` suffix. Attention: Verify that: [ ] The File names version include ``rc-#`` suffix have: [ ] All wheels uploaded as artifacts [ ] Release source's zip published [ ] Signatures and hashes do not need to be uploaded Beam publishes API reference manuals for each release on the website. For Java and Python SDKs, thats Javadoc and PyDoc, respectively. The final step of building the candidate is to propose website pull requests that update these manuals. The first pr will get created by the buildreleasecandidate action, you will need to create the second one manually Merge the pull requests only after finalizing the release. To avoid invalid redirects for the 'current' version, merge these PRs in the order listed. Once the PR is merged, the new contents will get picked up automatically and served to the Beam website, usually within an hour. A committer can manually trigger the task in Jenkins to avoid waiting. PR 1: apache/beam-site This pull request is against the `apache/beam-site` repo, on the `release-docs` branch (). It is created by the `buildreleasecandidate` workflow (see above). PR 2: apache/beam This pull request is against the `apache/beam` repo, on the `master` branch (). Update `CHANGES.md` to update release date and remove template. Update release version in `website/www/site/config.toml`. Add new release in `website/www/site/content/en/get-started/downloads.md`. Download links will not work until the release is finalized. Update links to prior releases to point to https://archive.apache.org (see example PR). Create the Blog post: Use the template below to write a blog post for the release. See as an example. Copy the changes for the current release from `CHANGES.md` to the blog post and edit as necessary. Be sure to add yourself to if necessary. TIP Use git log to find contributors to the releases. (e.g: `git fetch origin --tags; git log --pretty='%aN' ^v2.10.0 v2.11.0-RC1 | sort | uniq`). Make sure to clean it up, as there may be duplicate or incorrect user names. NOTE Make sure to include any breaking changes, even to `@Experimental` features, all major features and bug fixes, and all known issues. Template: title: "Apache Beam {$RELEASE_VERSION}" date: YYYY-MM-DD H:MM:00 Z categories: blog release authors: {$RELEASE_MANAGER} <!-- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --> We are happy to present the new {$RELEASE_VERSION} release of Beam. This release includes both improvements and new functionality. See the for this release. <{$REMOVEFORVALIDSUMMARYBREAK}!--more--> For more information on changes in {$RELEASE_VERSION}, check out the . New highly anticipated feature X added to Python SDK (). New highly anticipated feature Y added to Java SDK (). {$TOPICS e.g.:} Support for X source added (Java) (). {$TOPICS} X feature added (Python) (). Y feature added (Java) . X behavior was changed (). Y behavior was changed (). X behavior is deprecated and will be removed in X versions (). Fixed X (Python) (). Fixed Y (Java) (). {$KNOWNISSUE1} {$KNOWNISSUE2} For the most up to date list of known issues, see https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/CHANGES.md According to git shortlog, the following people contributed to the {$RELEASE_VERSION} release. Thank you to all contributors! ${CONTRIBUTORS} [ ] Maven artifacts deployed to the staging repository of [ ] Source distribution deployed to the dev repository of [ ] Website pull request proposed to list the , publish the [Java API reference manual](https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/), and publish the [Python API reference manual](https://beam.apache.org/releases/pydoc/). [ ] Docker images are published to with tags: `{RELEASEVERSION}rc{RCNUM}`. You can (optionally) also do additional verification by: [ ] Check that Python zip file contains the `README.md`, `NOTICE`, and `LICENSE` files. [ ] Check hashes (e.g. `md5sum -c .md5` and `sha1sum -c .sha1`. Note that signature/checksum files of Java artifacts may not contain filenames. Hence you might need to compare checksums/signatures manually or modify the files by appending the filenames.) [ ] Check signatures (e.g. `gpg --verify apache-beam-1.2.3-python.tar.gz.asc apache-beam-1.2.3-python.tar.gz`) [ ] `grep` for legal headers in each file. [ ] Run all jenkins suites and include links to passing tests in the voting email. [ ] Pull docker images to make sure they are pullable. (e.g. `docker pull apache/beampython3.7sdk:2.39.0rc1` Once you have built and individually reviewed the release candidate, please share it for the community-wide review. Please review foundation-wide [voting guidelines](https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html) for more information. Start the review-and-vote thread on the dev@ mailing list. Heres an email template; please adjust as you see fit. From: Release Manager To: dev@beam.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] Release 1.2.3, release candidate #3 Hi everyone, Please review and vote on the release candidate #3 for the version 1.2.3, as follows: [ ] +1, Approve the release [ ] -1, Do not approve the release (please provide specific comments) Reviewers are encouraged to test their own use cases with the release candidate, and vote +1 if no issues are found. Only PMC member votes will count towards the final vote, but votes from all community members is encouraged and helpful for finding regressions; you can either test your own use cases [13] or use cases from the validation sheet [10]. The complete staging area is available for your review, which includes: GitHub Release notes [1], the official Apache source release to be deployed to dist.apache.org [2], which is signed with the key with fingerprint FFFFFFFF (D20316F712213422 if automated) [3], all artifacts to be deployed to the Maven Central Repository [4], source code tag "v1.2.3-RC3" [5], website pull request listing the release [6], the blog post [6], and publishing the API reference manual [7]. Python artifacts are deployed along with the source release to the dist.apache.org [2] and PyPI[8]. Go artifacts and documentation are available at

[9] Validation sheet with a tab for 1.2.3 release to help with validation [10]. Docker images published to Docker Hub [11]. PR to run tests against release branch [12]. The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. It is adopted by majority approval, with at least 3 PMC affirmative votes. For guidelines on how to try the release in your projects, check out our RC testing guide [13]. Thanks, Release Manager [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/milestone/1... [2] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/beam/1.2.3/ [3] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/beam/KEYS [4] https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-NNNN/ [5] https://github.com/apache/beam/tree/v1.2.3-RC3 [6] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/... [7] https://github.com/apache/beam-site/pull/... [8] https://pypi.org/project/apache-beam/1.2.3rc3/ [9] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/apache/beam/sdks/v2@v1.2.3-RC3/go/pkg/beam [10] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qk-N5vjXvbcEk68GjbkSZTR8AGqyNUM-oLFo_ZXBpJw/edit#gid=... [11] https://hub.docker.com/search?q=apache%2Fbeam&type=image [12] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/... [13] https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/contributor-docs/rc-testing-guide.md If there are any issues found in the release candidate, reply on the vote thread to cancel the vote. Theres no need to wait 72 hours. Go back to and address the problem. However, some issues dont require cancellation. For example, if an issue is found in the website pull request, just correct it on the spot and the vote can continue as-is. The community is responsible for performing validation, but as release manager you are expected to contribute as well. Please see the for ideas on helping validate testing on downstream projects. Before accepting an RC, as a community we try to exercise most (if not all) of the tests listed in this , and those are good validations for you to try out as release manager. The goal of these tests is to validate that we're able to run basic pipelines from a variety of environments (not just our CI environment). Since there are many tests, we recommend you running some validations using an automation script. In case of script failure, you can still run all of them manually. You may need to have Python interpreters for all supported Python minor versions to run all of the tests. See Python installation tips in [Developer Wiki](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BEAM/Python+Tips#PythonTips-InstallingPythoninterpreters). Note The community's validation means more than just running the tests that we have already run. It includes users trying out the RC on their own downstream tests. It also includes double checking that our human-language instructions actually still correspond to the automation that we have built. Script: Usage First update required configurations listed in `RCVALIDATECONFIGS` in Then run ``` ./release/src/main/scripts/runrcvalidation.sh ``` Note: running the validations requires the ability to do the following in your GCP account: start pipelines, write to BigQuery, and create a cluster of machines for running containers (for x-lang validation). Tasks included Create a PR to trigger Python validation job, including Python quickstart in batch and streaming mode with direct runner and Dataflow runner. Python Mobile Games(UserScore, HourlyTeamScore) with direct runner and Dataflow runner. Run Python Streaming MobileGames, includes Start a new terminal to run Java Pubsub injector. Start a new terminal to run Python LeaderBoard with Direct Runner. Start a new terminal to run Python LeaderBoard with Dataflow Runner. Start a new terminal to run Python GameStats with Direct Runner. Start a new terminal to run Python GameStats with Dataflow Runner. Multi-language pipelines validation, includes Running the Python quickstart example using Python portable DirectRunner. This will start a new terminal for the Java expansion service. Running the Java quickstart example using Python portable DirectRunner. This will start new terminals for the Python expansion service and the job server. Start a new terminal to run Python multi-language Java kafka validation with Dataflow Runner. Start a new terminal to run Python multi-language Java sql validation with Dataflow Runner. Tasks you need to do manually*. [ ] Check whether validations succeed by following console output instructions. [ ] Terminate streaming jobs and java

[ ] Run Java quickstart (wordcount) and mobile game examples with the staged artifacts. The easiest way to do this is by running the tests on GitHub Actions. Other manual validation will follow, but this will at least validate that the staged artifacts can be used. Go to https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/workflows/beamPostReleaseNightlySnapshot.yml/. Click "Run Workflow". Set `RELEASE` to `2.xx.0`, and set `SNAPSHOT_URL` to point to the staged artifacts in Maven central (https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-NNNN/). Click "Build". . [ ] Vote in the release thread. Note `-Prepourl` and `-Pver` can be found in the RC vote email sent by Release Manager. Java Quickstart Validation* Direct Runner ``` ./gradlew :runners:direct-java:runQuickstartJavaDirect \ -Prepourl=https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-${KEY} \ -Pver=${RELEASE_VERSION} ``` Flink Local Runner ``` ./gradlew :runners:flink:1.13:runQuickstartJavaFlinkLocal \ -Prepourl=https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-${KEY} \ -Pver=${RELEASE_VERSION} ``` Spark Local Runner ``` ./gradlew :runners:spark:3:runQuickstartJavaSpark \ -Prepourl=https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-${KEY} \ -Pver=${RELEASE_VERSION} ``` Dataflow Runner ``` ./gradlew :runners:google-cloud-dataflow-java:runQuickstartJavaDataflow \ -Prepourl=https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-${KEY} \ -Pver=${RELEASE_VERSION} \ -PgcpProject=${YOURGCPPROJECT} \ -PgcsBucket=${YOURGCPBUCKET} ``` Java Mobile Game(UserScore, HourlyTeamScore, Leaderboard)* Prerequisites Create your own BigQuery dataset* ``` bq mk --projectid=${YOURGCPPROJECT} ${YOURDATASET} ``` Create your PubSub topic* ``` gcloud alpha pubsub topics create --project=${YOURGCPPROJECT} ${YOURPROJECTPUBSUB_TOPIC} ``` Setup your service account* Goto IAM console in your project to create a service account as `project owner`, then run ``` gcloud iam service-accounts keys create ${YOURKEYJSON} --iam-account ${YOURSERVICEACCOUNTNAME}@${YOURPROJECT_NAME} export GOOGLEAPPLICATIONCREDENTIALS=${PATHTOYOURKEYJSON} ``` Run ``` ./gradlew :runners:google-cloud-dataflow-java:runMobileGamingJavaDataflow \ -Prepourl=https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-${KEY} \ -Pver=${RELEASE_VERSION} \ -PgcpProject=${YOURGCPPROJECT} \ -PgcsBucket=${YOURGCPBUCKET} \ -PbqDataset=${YOURDATASET} -PpubsubTopic=${YOURPROJECTPUBSUBTOPIC} ``` Python Quickstart(batch & streaming), MobileGame(UserScore, HourlyTeamScore)* Create a new PR in apache/beam. In comment area, type in `Run Python ReleaseCandidate` to trigger validation. Python Leaderboard & GameStats* Get staging RC `wget https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/beam/2.5.0/ ` Verify the hashes* ``` sha512sum -c apache-beam-2.5.0-python.tar.gz.sha512 sha512sum -c apache-beam-2.5.0-source-release.tar.gz.sha512 ``` Build SDK* ``` sudo apt-get install unzip unzip apache-beam-2.5.0-source-release.tar.gz python setup.py sdist ``` Setup virtual environment* ``` python3 -m venv beam_env . ./beam_env/bin/activate pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel ``` Install SDK* ``` pip install dist/apache-beam-2.5.0.tar.gz pip install dist/apache-beam-2.5.0.tar.gz[gcp] ``` Setup GCP* Please repeat following steps for every following test. ``` bq rm -rf --project=${YOURPROJECT} ${USER}test bq mk --projectid=${YOURPROJECT} ${USER}_test gsutil rm -rf ${YOURGSSTORAGE] gsutil mb -p ${YOURPROJECT} ${YOURGS_STORAGE} gcloud alpha pubsub topics create --project=${YOURPROJECT} ${YOURPUBSUB_TOPIC} ``` Setup your service account as described in ```Java Mobile Game``` section above. Produce data by using java injector:* Configure your ~/.m2/settings.xml as following: ``` <settings> <profiles> <profile> <id>release-repo</id> <activation> <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> </activation> <repositories> <repository> <id>Release 2.4.0 RC3</id> <name>Release 2.4.0 RC3</name> <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachebeam-1031/</url> </repository> </repositories> </profile> </profiles> </settings> ``` Note: You can found the latest ```id```, ```name``` and ```url``` for one RC in the vote email thread sent out by Release Manager. Run ``` mvn archetype:generate \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.beam \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=beam-sdks-java-maven-archetypes-examples \ -DarchetypeVersion=${RELEASE_VERSION} \ -DgroupId=org.example \ -DartifactId=word-count-beam \ -Dversion="0.1" \ -Dpackage=org.apache.beam.examples \ -DinteractiveMode=false -DarchetypeCatalog=internal mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=org.apache.beam.examples.complete.game.injector.Injector \ -Dexec.args="${YOURPROJECT} ${YOURPUBSUB_TOPIC} none" ``` Run Leaderboard with Direct Runner* ``` python -m apachebeam.examples.complete.game.leaderboard \ --project=${YOUR_PROJECT} \ --topic projects/${YOURPROJECT}/topics/${YOURPUBSUB_TOPIC} \ --dataset ${USER}_test ``` Inspect results: Check whether there is any error messages in console. Goto your BigQuery console and check whether your ${USER}test has leaderboardusers and leaderboard_teams table. bq head -n 10 ${USER}test.leaderboard_users bq head -n 10 ${USER}test.leaderboard_teams Run Leaderboard with Dataflow Runner* ``` python -m apachebeam.examples.complete.game.leaderboard \ --project=${YOUR_PROJECT} \ --region=${GCE_REGION} \ --topic projects/${YOURPROJECT}/topics/${YOURPUBSUB_TOPIC} \ --dataset ${USER}_test \ --runner DataflowRunner \ --templocation=${YOURGS_BUCKET}/temp/ \ --sdk_location dist/* ``` Inspect results: Goto your Dataflow job console and check whether there is any error. Goto your BigQuery console and check whether your ${USER}test has leaderboardusers and leaderboard_teams table. bq head -n 10 ${USER}test.leaderboard_users bq head -n 10 ${USER}test.leaderboard_teams Run GameStats with Direct Runner* ``` python -m apachebeam.examples.complete.game.gamestats \ --project=${YOUR_PROJECT} \ --topic projects/${YOURPROJECT}/topics/${YOURPUBSUB_TOPIC} \ --dataset ${USER}_test \ --fixedwindowduration ${SOMESMALLDURATION} ``` Inspect results: Check whether there is any error messages in console. Goto your BigQuery console and check whether your ${USER}test has gamestatsteams and gamestats_sessions

bq head -n 10 ${USER}test.gamestats_teams bq head -n 10 ${USER}test.gamestats_sessions Run GameStats with Dataflow Runner* ``` python -m apachebeam.examples.complete.game.gamestats \ --project=${YOUR_PROJECT} \ --region=${GCE_REGION} \ --topic projects/${YOURPROJECT}/topics/${YOURPUBSUB_TOPIC} \ --dataset ${USER}_test \ --runner DataflowRunner \ --templocation=${YOURGS_BUCKET}/temp/ \ --sdk_location dist/* \ --fixedwindowduration ${SOMESMALLDURATION} ``` Inspect results: Goto your Dataflow job console and check whether there is any error. Goto your BigQuery console and check whether your ${USER}test has gamestatsteams and gamestats_sessions table. bq head -n 10 ${USER}test.gamestats_teams bq head -n 10 ${USER}test.gamestats_sessions Reply on the vote thread to close the voting once following conditions are met for the current release candidate. [ ] At least 72 hours has passed since the voting email. [ ] No release blocking issues have been identified. [ ] Voting thread has at least three approving PMC votes. Then, tally the votes in a separate email thread. Heres an email template; please adjust as you see fit. From: Release Manager To: dev@beam.apache.org Subject: [RESULT] [VOTE] Release 1.2.3, release candidate #3 I'm happy to announce that we have unanimously approved this release. There are XXX approving votes, XXX of which are binding: approver 1 approver 2 approver 3 approver 4 There are no disapproving votes. Thanks everyone! [ ] Issues identified during vote have been resolved, with fixes committed to the release branch. [ ] All issues in the current release's milestone should be closed. [ ] Community votes to release the proposed candidate, with at least three approving PMC votes. Once the release candidate has been reviewed and approved by the community, the release should be finalized. This involves the final deployment of the release candidate to the release repositories, merging of the website changes, etc. This does not take very long, and can be accomplished within hours of the vote being finalized. Use the to release the staged binary artifacts to the Maven Central repository. In the `Staging Repositories` section, find the relevant release candidate `orgapachebeam-XXX` entry and click `Release`. Drop all other release candidates that are not being released. GitHub Action:* After running the action, perform the following checks: Verify that the files at https://pypi.org/project/apache-beam/#files are correct. All wheels should be published, in addition to the zip of the release source. (Signatures and hashes do not need to be uploaded.) Images are published at with tags {RELEASE_VERSION} and latest*. Images with latest tag are pointing to current release by confirming the digest of the image with latest* tag is the same as the one with {RELEASE_VERSION} tag. `v{RELEASEVERSION}` and `sdks/v{RELEASEVERSION}` tags should be visible on Github's page. Merge all of the website pull requests publishing the and the , and adding the release blog post. Once the tag is uploaded, publish the release notes to Github. From the select "Draft a new release." Title the release "Beam ${RELEASE_VERSION} release" and set the release at the version tag created above. Use the content of the release blog post as the body of the release notes, set this version as the latest release, and publish it. The release notes should now be visible on Github's page. In GitHub, in the , click close on the current release. There are a few release finalization tasks that only PMC members have permissions to do. Ping mailing list for assistance if you need it. Copy the source release from the `dev` repository to the `release` repository at `dist.apache.org` using Subversion. ``` export RELEASE_VERSION=<set the release version> export OLDRELEASEVERSION=<set the previous release version> svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/beam dev # Checkout the `dev` artifact repo. svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/beam release # Checkout the `release` artifact

mkdir release/$RELEASE_VERSION cp -R dev/$RELEASEVERSION/* release/$RELEASEVERSION/ cd release svn add $RELEASE_VERSION svn rm $OLDRELEASEVERSION # Delete all artifacts from old releases. svn commit -m "Adding artifacts for the ${RELEASE_VERSION} release and removing old artifacts" ``` Make sure the last release's artifacts have been copied from `dist.apache.org` to `archive.apache.org`. This should happen automatically: with context. Use to seed the information about the release into future project reports. and publish the merged. page. page. [ ] Release version finalized in GitHub. [ ] Release version is listed at reporter.apache.org Once the release has been finalized, the last step of the process is to promote the release within the project and beyond. Announce on the dev@ mailing list that the release has been finished. Announce on the release on the user@ mailing list, listing major improvements and contributions. Announce the release on the announce@apache.org mailing list. NOTE: This can only be done from `@apache.org` email address. This email has to be in plain text (no HTML tags). Tweet, post on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other platforms. Ask other contributors to do the same. Also, update . [ ] Release announced on the user@ mailing list. [ ] Blog post published, if applicable. [ ] Release recorded in reporter.apache.org. [ ] Release announced on social media. [ ] Completion declared on the dev@ mailing list. [ ] Update Wikipedia Apache Beam article. At the end of the release, go to the GitHub milestones page and mark the recently released version as closed. Google releases a BOM that pins compatible versions of their Java libraries. After the release, try updating the BOM to the latest version. To do so, create a draft PR and run test suites following the instructions at https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/contributor-docs/java-dependency-upgrades.md. Triage the test failures and rerun any tests that seem potentially unrelated to the upgrade. If there are no test failures due to the BOM upgrade, request review and merge the PR as normal. If there are test failures due to the BOM upgrade, email the dev list and ask for a volunteer to take the update forward. It is not your responsibility to fix the BOM issues or to find a volunteer (though you are welcome to take it forward). If nobody volunteers, that is OK and this issue can roll forward to the next release. You can optionally use the following template for your email to the dev list: ``` From: Release Manager To: dev@beam.apache.org Subject: Java BOM Update X.Y.Z Hi everyone, Following the instructions in https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/contributor-docs/release-guide.md#post-release-tasks I've attempted to update the Java Google BOM and have run into test issues caused by the upgrade [1]. Since the Java Google BOM update is best effort for a release manager, I'm handing this piece off to the community. If you would like to volunteer to help, you can get started by following the instructions in https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/contributor-docs/java-dependency-upgrades.md#google-cloud-related-dependency-upgrades otherwise this will roll over to the next release. Thanks, Release Manager [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/123 ``` A PR should have already been created (and possibly merged) by github-actions bot, you should verify that this was done correctly by looking at open PRs from that bot - https://github.com/apache/beam/pulls/app%2Fgithub-actions If a PR has not been merged, drive it to completion. If no PR was created, triage any failures in https://github.com/apache/beam/actions/workflows/beamPublishWebsite.yml and manually regenerate dependencies, following https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BEAM/Python+Tips#PythonTips-HowtoupdatedependenciesthatareinstalledinPythoncontainerimages After the new Beam release is published, the Java starter project needs to have its version manually upgraded. To do this, create a PR like https://github.com/apache/beam-starter-java/pull/94 (with the appropriate version number). You can also update the versions in https://github.com/apache/beam-starter-python and https://github.com/apache/beam-starter-go if you would

This is optional because dependabot will automatically open a PR to do this if you don't. After new Beam Release is published, Beam Playground can be updated following the steps below. If any steps fail, make sure that the triggers are correctly configured as described in https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/playground/terraform/infrastructure/cloudbuild-manual-setup/README.md#deploy-playgorund-environment-from-cloud-build-triggers: Open the GCP project. Find the trigger "Deploy-Update-Playground-environment-stg": Click on the trigger name to open its settings Change the value for SDKTAG variable (Advanced -> Substitution Variables) to the actual version of Beam SDK (e.g. 2.47.0) Click the Save button. The settings window should close without any errors Click the RUN button next to the trigger name In the panel that opened, set the value for the CONTAINERTAG variable in format DD-MM-vXX (DD - day, MM - month, XX - version, e.g., 20-12-v01) Click the Run Trigger button Open the and wait for the job completion. Ensure that the job completed successfully (Status field shows a green tick) Find the trigger "Playground-CD-stable-manual-stg", it will be run twice, once with default variables, and once with some overridden: Click the RUN button next to the trigger name In the panel that opened, click the Run Trigger button (with default variable values) Open the and wait for the job completion. Ensure that the job completed successfully (Status field shows a green tick) Click the RUN button next to the trigger name In the panel that opened, change values for the variables: ORIGIN = PGBEAMDOC _SUBDIRS = ./learning/beamdoc Click the Run Trigger button Open the and wait for the job completion. Ensure that the job completed successfully (Status field shows a green tick) Test updated in a browser Open the menu (represented by '...' in the right top corner) and click on Versions. Validate that commit is the same for all listed containers, and the hash belongs to a For each of the supported SDKs (Java, Python, Go, SCIO): Switch to the SDK Make any changes to the loaded default example Click the Run button Wait for successful completion Click "Share My Code" to ensure that the link is generated Repeat the same steps for "Deploy-Update-Playground-environment-prod" trigger as for "Deploy-Update-Playground-environment-stg" trigger Repeat the same steps for "Playground-CD-stable-manual-prod" trigger as for "Playground-CD-stable-manual-stg" trigger Test updated in a browser. The process is similar to the staging environment. Find the trigger "Playground-CI-stable" Click on the trigger name to open its settings Set the value for the BEAMVERSION variable (Advanced -> Substitution Variables) to the actual version of Beam SDK (e.g., 2.47.0) Click the Save button. Click the Save button. The settings window should close without any errors It is important that we improve the release processes over time. Once youve finished the release, please take a step back and look what areas of this process and be improved. Perhaps some part of the process can be simplified. Perhaps parts of this guide can be clarified. If we have specific ideas, please start a discussion on the dev@ mailing list and/or propose a pull request to update this guide. Thanks! The above document assumes a minor version bump cut off of the master branch. If you want to do a patch release cut off of a previous release branch, use the following steps: Create a new release branch: ``` git clone https://github.com/apache/beam cd beam git fetch origin release-2.XX.0 git checkout release-2.XX.0 git checkout -b release-2.XX.1 git push origin release-2.XX.1 ``` Add a PR to add the new release branch to the set of protected branches in .asf.yml - Add a PR to bump the Dataflow containers versions - Create PRs to cherry-pick any desired commits to the release branch Follow the