4.10.0 Post-release checklist

[compulim]

These are chores that we should do before starting the cycle to reduce ripple effects if we do it in mid-cycle.

Tips:

• Clean your repo before start
• Remove node_modules from all folder
  • git clean -fdx
• Never delete package-lock.json
• If you mess it up, tableflip and redo
• In component/package.json
  • Remove reference to botframework-webchat-core by hand-modifying package.json
  • Then, npm install (symlinks will be broken afterward)
  • Then, add those references back by hand-modifying package.json
  • This also applies for other packages with similar dependencies/symlinks
  • To build afterward, do tableflip to rebuild those symlinks

Applies to all releases

This list should be copied to versions in the future.

• Bump package.json to 4.10.1-0
  • The PR number is [HIGH] Bump to 4.10.1-0 #3433
• On QFE branch, make sure CHANGELOG.md is cherry-picked to master
• Update servicingPlan.json
  • Add deprecation notes for previous versions
  • Subresource integrity hash from https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/releases/tag/v4.10.0
  • The PR is #XXX
• Update all samples to use 4.10.0
  • Some samples are pointing to GitHub Releases because the sample need new features from daily build
  • Search "https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat/releases/download/"

Applies to major/minor releases

Do not applies to patch releases, i.e. 4.10.0 -> 4.10.1.

Bump all dependencies to latest version

On each package.json under root and /packages/:

• All NPM packages (@babel/*, jest, lerna, typescript, webpack, etc) (#XXX)
  • Don't bump the following packages
    • react, react-dom, redux, redux-saga
      • Locking down for app compatibility
    • remark and strip-markdown
      • Newer remark don't work under IE11
      • Please go to the their repos and see if this is fixed or by design
    • serve
    • rxjs on playground
    • microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk
• Run npm audit fix to make sure everything is fixed
• Test under IE11 to make sure all dependencies are working

Bump Docker image

The Docker image can be found at root docker-compose.yml and Dockerfile*.

• Docker container for headless Chrome (#XXX)
  • They recently moved from 3.14.159-xxx tag scheme to a more sensible 84.0 tag scheme
  • Tags can be found at https://hub.docker.com/r/selenium/node-chrome/tags
  • Preferably in separate PR because screenshots change can be large occasionally
  • Run tests locally, as the screenshots can be slightly different

Additional steps for 4.10.0

• Clean up branches on official repo
  • We should only have these branches:
    • master (or main)
    • gh-pages
    • ibiza
    • preview-* (this is for private preview of features)
    • qfe*
    • v3
  • For 4.10.0 only: please keep v0.15.0 and investigate later, I am unsure who created this and why it is there.
  • Everyone should fork and submit PR thru their fork
  • Please ping devs who created branches on the official repo about deletion of their branches

[corinagum]

Partially implemented by PR #3442
We still need:

• cognitive services
• Docker image bump

[compulim]

We will fix it on post-4.10.1.