Release management: 2.26.0

[huonw]

2.26.0 will be the next 'major', following 2.25 on Mar 19.

• 6 weeks after Mar 19 is 2025-04-30

• Bug Triage!
• Prepare Release Notes
• Blog Post
• Additional RCs as needed; nudge testing in productive testing; various applications of human judgement under conditions of uncertainty.
• Actually do the release!
• Update Example Repos
• Update schema store (https://www.pantsbuild.org/prerelease/docs/contributions/releases/release-process#step-5-publish-a-schema-in-json-schema-store)

[huonw]

Released: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/releases/tag/release_2.26.0

Blog post:

• Blog: Pants 2.26 is released pantsbuild.org#364 => https://www.pantsbuild.org/blog/2025/05/05/pants-2-26

Example repos: (using https://gist.github.com/huonw/5a4258451f338d26236701dd33de826c)

• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-visibility#12
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-serverless#9
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-python#147
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-kotlin#23
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-jvm#39
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-javascript#12
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-golang#23
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-docker#25 => blocked by CI issues
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-django#45
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-codegen#32
• Upgrade to Pants 2.26.0 example-adhoc#15

Schema store:

• Add Pantsbuild 2.26.0 SchemaStore/schemastore#4684

[huonw]

This is done except for the example-docker upgrade, so closing.