Release: Publish Gitea 1.26.2

[lunny]

Feature Description

• Check cowdin sync
• Check possible Golang versions upgraded
  • Check whether XGo is ready for new Golang version
  • Check whether golang-alpine image is ready for the new Golang version
• Prepare a new changelog (there are a lot of new changes) and update CHANGELOG.md
• Close milestone of 1.26.2
• Release 1.26.2 from release/v1.26 branch
  • Generate changelog_1.26.2.md from merged CHANGELOG.md
  • Frontend changelog to main branch
  • Tag 1.26.2 with git tag -s -f changelog_1.26.2.md v1.26.2 and Push to Github
  • Wait for the release created and check whether the release artifacts generated
    • Check whether Github release attachments are generated and normal
    • Check whether the binaries generated under https://dl.gitea.com/gitea/1.26.2/ and normal
    • Check whether docker images are generated https://hub.docker.com/r/gitea/gitea/tags?page=&page_size=&ordering=&name=1.26.2
  • If the release does work then make it out of draft so that it's public for everyone.
• Update "version.json" to 1.26.2
• Official packages updated
  • Homebrew https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/g/gitea.rb
  • Snap https://snapcraft.io/gitea
  • Helm Chart For Gitea
  • Terraform
• Update documentation's latest stable version to 1.26.2
• Confirm blog is ready and merge https://gitea.com/gitea/blog/pulls/520
• Official website download button version
• Announce the 1.26.2 release.

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[bircni]

can we adjust the description? 1/2 of it will not be done or is not necessary

[lunny]

can we adjust the description? 1/2 of it will not be done or is not necessary

Which parts did you mean?

[bircni]

Blog: https://gitea.com/gitea/blog/pulls/520

[bircni]

can we adjust the description? 1/2 of it will not be done or is not necessary

Which parts did you mean?

I don't think we will recheck crowdin + the golang versions

[wxiaoguang]

Many changes should be in "security" section.

[bircni]

Many changes should be in "security" section.

updating the blog for it

[bircni]

waiting for

• fix show correct mergebase #37656
• fix(packages): Add label for private and internal package and fix composor package source permission check (#37610) #37643

can also be moved into 1.26.3

• fix(actions): run TransferLogs on UpdateLog{Rows:[], NoMore:true} #37631

[bircni]

Relevant:

• fix: Unify public-only token filtering in API queries and repo access checks #37118
• Fix OAuth2 group sync removing sole org owner #37161
• fix: Allow direct commits for unprotected files with push restrictions #37657
• fix(actions): make artifact signature payloads unambiguous #37707
• fix: Add missed token scope checking #37735

[lunny]

#37593 need to be verified after the snap package builded.