SOF 2.9 Release Checklist #8696

Planned Timeline

• Stable v2.9 Branch – ww09 (Feb 26 to March 1)
• RC1 – ww10 (March 3 to March 8)
• Final Tag – ww11 (March 11 to March 15)
• Target Release – ww12 (March 18 to March 22)
• Overflow week (in case multiple RCs are required) – ww13

Pre-RC1 Steps, Creation of Stable Branch

• Tag features and issue list with milestone v2.9: https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/milestones/v2.9
• Choose a SOF commit on main branch as candidate for stable branch
• Testing & sign off
• Branch stable v2.9 -> https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/tree/stable-v2.9

RC1 Steps:

• Cherry pick critical features and bug fixes to stable-v2.9 for RC1
• Perform FW security scan and fix opens
• Testing & sign off
• Tag v2.9-RC1 -> https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/tree/v2.9-rc1

Final Release Steps:

• Cherry pick critical features and bug fixes to stable-v2.9
• Testing & sign off
• Tag v2.9 -> https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/tree/v2.9
• Publish release on https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/releases

Final Release, vendor specific steps / Intel:

• Production sign FW, upload FW and topology binaries to internal release folder
• Publish release on https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/blob/main/HOWTO-new-release.md

Final Steps:

• Declare the v2.9 release on https://www.sofproject.org/blog/
• Move any unfinished issues to next milestone