Preparing next release version (deegree web services 3.5)

[tfr42]

The TMC has the notion to prepare a next minor (3.5) version which contains the schema changing PR and the upgrade of the runtime environment to support JDK 11 and Tomcat 9.x.

Open Issues which should be resolved with next major release version:

• Complete upgrade HOWTO in https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/Upgrading-deegree-webservices
• Update https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/Releasing-deegree
• Update https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/End-of-Life-and-Support-Matrix
• Update build infrastructure: deegree maven plugin does clean up deegree-compliance-tests directory #1072, Demo workspaces and services need update to deegree 3.4.x #1060, Update Infrastructure #851
• Update documentation, Update version in documentation to 3.5 #1358
• Cleaning up the MSSQL dialect module #1322
• Upgrade to JSF 2.2 and related dependencies #991
• Upgrade to Servlet API 3.x and related dependencies #990
• Update to PostgreSQL 10+ and PostGIS 3+ #1124
• Implement new xml schema version strategy #953
• merging all schema changing PR
• Support for Java 9/10/11+ #857
• Enforce lowest Maven version for build and clean up Maven build #1324
• Upgrade/replace deegree-maven-plugin #963
• Upgrade log4j to log4j2 #976
• Upgrade to most recent version of JTS is required #1046
• Upgrade to gdal 3.x #1103
• Upgrade Apache Commons Pool and Commons DBCP #1017
• Upgrade to most recent MS SQL Server JDBC Driver version for JDK 8 #1026
• Update Oracle and Oracle Raster driver to 19c/21c #1122
• Move the obsolete module deegree-spring to the uncoupled section, see (Re)move the deegree-spring module from main project  #1217

[tfr42]

deegree webservices version 3.5-RC1 is available for download. Check http://www.deegree.org/download/ for more information how to get the artefact.
Direct download link: https://repo.deegree.org/repository/releases/org%2Fdeegree%2Fdeegree-webservices%2F3.5-RC1%2Fdeegree-webservices-3.5-RC1.war

[julianzz98]

Testing of the deegree 3.5-RC1 with the provided deegree workspaces was successful, furthermore INSPIRE data was published as WFS with a postgresql database as datasource.

[tfr42]

No blocking issue for 3.5 open 👍. We are ready to release 3.5.0. 🚀

[tfr42]

Release build completed sucessfully: https://buildserver.deegree.org/job/deegree-3.5-release-pipeline/12/

[tfr42]

Now we proceed with the publishing of the release as described in https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/Releasing-deegree

[tfr42]

• create new milestone on github https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/milestones/
• tag and label all merged PR for this milestone, use a query like is:pr is:merged merged:>=2022-03-02. Follow also Update GitHub pull requests
• run build job without perform release enabled
• Continue when no error occurred!
• run build job with maven release perform enabled
• verify that relevant artifacts have been uploaded to nexus: https://repo.deegree.org/repository/public/org/deegree/deegree-webservices/
• update Dockerfile to new version: https://github.com/deegree/deegree3-docker/blob/main/3.5/Dockerfile
• build docker image from Dockerfile
• locally test docker image as described in https://github.com/deegree/deegree3-docker/blob/master/README.md
• Continue when no fatal or unknown error occurred!
• create git tag: https://github.com/deegree/deegree3-docker/tags - not needed anymore, every commit on branch main (renamed from master) will trigger a build and push the images to docker hub!
• push docker image to: https://hub.docker.com/r/deegree/deegree3-docker/
• create release from tag: https://github.com/deegree/deegree3-docker/releases - not needed anymore, there is no value to maintain a duplicated list of releases for the docker files. List of releases is available here. The docker tags are here.
• publish documentation as described here
• create release from tag and upload WAR and PDF artifacts to https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/releases
• publish tag and use "auto-generate release notes"
• close milestone and add link to release tag
• update and publish website as described here
• update end-of-life matrix: https://github.com/deegree/deegree3/wiki/End-of-Life-and-Support-Matrix
• send email out to mailing lists as described here
• Send a tweet for #deegree_org at twitter: https://twitter.com/deegree_org