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Release Checklist

See https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/versioning.html for information about how the version numbers line up with releases.

Main Release

Released quarterly on January 2nd, April 1st, July 1st and October 15th.

  • Open a release ticket e.g. #3154
  • Develop and prepare release in main branch.
  • Check GitHub Actions and AppVeyor to confirm passing tests in main branch.
  • Check that all of the wheel builds pass the tests in the GitHub Actions "Wheels" workflow and Travis CI jobs by manually triggering them.
  • In compliance with PEP 440, update version identifier in src/PIL/_version.py
  • Update CHANGES.rst.
  • Run pre-release check via make release-test in a freshly cloned repo.
  • Create branch and tag for release e.g.: 
    git branch 5.2.x
git tag 5.2.0
git push --tags
  • Create and check source distribution: 
    make sdist
  • Create binary distributions
  • Check and upload all binaries and source distributions e.g.: 
    python3 -m twine check --strict dist/*
python3 -m twine upload dist/Pillow-5.2.0*
  • Publish the release on GitHub
  • In compliance with PEP 440, increment and append .dev0 to version identifier in src/PIL/_version.py and then: 
    git push --all

Point Release

Released as needed for security, installation or critical bug fixes.

  • Make necessary changes in main branch.
  • Update CHANGES.rst.
  • Check out release branch e.g.: 
    git checkout -t remotes/origin/5.2.x
  • Cherry pick individual commits from main branch to release branch e.g. 5.2.x, then git push.
  • Check GitHub Actions and AppVeyor to confirm passing tests in release branch e.g. 5.2.x.
  • In compliance with PEP 440, update version identifier in src/PIL/_version.py
  • Run pre-release check via make release-test.
  • Create tag for release e.g.: 
    git tag 5.2.1
git push --tags
  • Create and check source distribution: 
    make sdist
  • Create binary distributions
  • Check and upload all binaries and source distributions e.g.: 
    python3 -m twine check --strict dist/*
python3 -m twine upload dist/Pillow-5.2.1*
  • Publish the release on GitHub and then: 
    git push

Embargoed Release

Released as needed privately to individual vendors for critical security-related bug fixes.

  • Prepare patch for all versions that will get a fix. Test against local installations.
  • Commit against main, cherry pick to affected release branches.
  • Run local test matrix on each release & Python version.
  • Privately send to distros.
  • Run pre-release check via make release-test
  • Amend any commits with the CVE #
  • On release date, tag and push to GitHub. 
    git checkout 2.5.x
git tag 2.5.3
git push origin --tags
  • Create and check source distribution: 
    make sdist
  • Create binary distributions
  • Publish the release on GitHub and then: 
    git push origin 2.5.x

Binary Distributions

macOS and Linux

Windows

Publicize Release

Documentation

Docker Images

  • Update Pillow in the Docker Images repository 
    git clone https://github.com/python-pillow/docker-images
cd docker-images
./update-pillow-tag.sh [[release tag]]