Release Checklist 0.124.0

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Release Checklist

This checklist verifies a release is rolled out successfully.

Preparation

• Milestone created
• Milestone field populated on relevant issues
• Nothing open for milestone
• GitHub checks for branch are passing
• No pre-release or snapshot dependencies present in build files
• Verify hedera-services protobuf dependency doesn't contain any unsupported fields or messages
• Automated Kubernetes deployment to integration successful
• Tag release

Release Candidates

Previewnet

Deployed automatically on every tag.

• Deployed

Performance

• Deployed
• gRPC API performance tests
• Importer performance tests

Mainnet Staging

• Backup Enabled
• Enable reconciliation on exporter config maps
• Deployed
• Stackgres Security Upgrade
• REST API performance tests
• REST Java API performance tests
• Web3 API performance tests

Generally Available

• Publish release
• Publish marketplace release

Previewnet

Deployed automatically on every tag.

• Deployed
• Stackgres Security Upgrade

Testnet

A GA tag will trigger an automatic deployment to NA. Upon success, a PR for EU will automatically get created.

• Disk Snapshot for Citus is Taken (can be EU or NA)
• Stackgres Security Upgrade NA
• Deployed NA
• Stackgres Security Upgrade EU
• Backup Enabled EU
• Deployed EU

Pre-Production

These preprod environments are automatically deployed for any GA release. Ensure the deployments are successful.

• Dev
• Integration Docker
• Staging Large
• Staging Small

Mainnet

Wait about a week after the testnet deployment to give it time to bake, then deploy to NA first. Upon success, a PR for
EU will automatically get created.

• Reduce prometheus memory
• Enable reconciliation on exporter config maps
• Disk Snapshot for Citus is Taken (can be EU or NA)
• Stackgres Security Upgrade NA
• Deployed NA
• Stackgres Security Upgrade EU
• Backup Enabled EU
• Deployed EU

Post Release

• Update any completed HIPs to Final status and populate the release.