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Release Process

Releases are performed in lockstep with open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto releases.

Preparing a new release

Applies to major, minor and patch releases of open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto.

Merge a PR to main updating the protoVersion variable in build.gradle.kts to the version of opentelemetry-proto to be released
Run the Prepare release branch workflow
- Press the "Run workflow" button, and leave the default branch main selected
- Review and merge the pull request it creates (targeted to the release branch, which sets snapshot = false)

Preparing a patch release

TODO: Define process for releasing a patch, which should add a 4th component to the opentelemetry-proto release version, e.g. v1.5.0.1

Making the release

Run the Release workflow
- Press the "Run workflow" button, then select the release branch from the dropdown list, e.g. release/v1.8.0, and click the "Run workflow" button below that.
- This workflow will publish artifacts to maven central and will publish a GitHub release with auto-generated release notes.

Credentials

See opentelemetry-java credentials.