Please go through this link Maintainer Responsibility
Tag and sign your release commit, additionally this step requires you to have access to MinIO's trusted private key.
$ export GNUPGHOME=/media/${USER}/minio/trusted
$ git tag -s 4.0.0
$ git push
$ git push --tags
Once release has been made update libraryVersion
constant in api.go
to next to be released version.
$ grep libraryVersion api.go
libraryVersion = "4.0.1"
Commit your changes
$ git commit -a -m "Update version for next release" --author "MinIO Trusted <trusted@min.io>"
Announce new release by adding release notes at https://github.com/minio/minio-go/releases from trusted@min.io
account. Release notes requires two sections highlights
and changelog
. Highlights is a bulleted list of salient features in this release and Changelog contains list of all commits since the last release.
To generate changelog
$ git log --no-color --pretty=format:'-%d %s (%cr) <%an>' <last_release_tag>..<latest_release_tag>