Release Pillow 6.0.0 on April 1, 2019 #3618
Description
Release notes needed:
- Add TIFF compression codecs: LZMA, Zstd, WebP #3555
- Added support for I;16 modes for more transpose operations #3563?
Do not resize in Image.thumbnail if already the destination size #3632? - Added PPM mime types #3688
Main release checklist
- Open a release ticket
- Develop and prepare release in
masterbranch. - Check Travis CI and AppVeyor CI to confirm passing tests in
masterbranch. - Check that all of the wheel builds Pillow Wheel Builder pass the tests in Travis CI.
- In compliance with PEP 440, update version identifier in
src/PIL/_version.py - Update
CHANGES.rst. - Run pre-release check via
make release-testin a freshly cloned repo. - Create branch and tag for release e.g.:
$ git branch 6.0.x
$ git tag 6.0.0
$ git push --all
$ git push --tags
- Create source distributions e.g.:
$ make sdist
- Create binary distributions
- Upload all binaries and source distributions e.g.
twine upload dist/Pillow-6.0.0-* - Create a new release on GitHub
- In compliance with PEP 440, append
.dev0to version identifier insrc/PIL/_version.py
Binary Distributions
Windows
- Contact
@cgohlkefor Windows binaries via release ticket e.g. Release 2.9.0 on July 1, 2015 #1174. - Download and extract tarball from
@cgohlkeandtwine upload *.
Mac and Linux
- Use the Pillow Wheel Builder:
git clone https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow-wheels
cd pillow-wheels
./update-pillow-tag.sh 6.0.0- Download distributions from the Pillow Wheel Builder container.
wget -m -A 'Pillow-6.0.0*' \
http://a365fff413fe338398b6-1c8a9b3114517dc5fe17b7c3f8c63a43.r19.cf2.rackcdn.comPublicize Release
- Announce release availability via Twitter e.g. https://twitter.com/PythonPillow/status/1013789184354603010
Documentation
- Make sure the default version for Read the Docs is the latest release version, i.e.
6.0.0rather thanlateste.g. https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/6.0.x/