onionshare/RELEASE.md

OnionShare Release Process

Unless you're a core OnionShare developer making a release, you'll probably never need to follow it.

Changelog, version, docs, and signed git tag

Before making a release, you must update the version in these places:

• cli/pyproject.toml
• cli/setup.py
• cli/onionshare_cli/resources/version.txt
• desktop/pyproject.toml (under version and the ./onionshare_cli-$VERSION-py3-none-any.whl dependency)
• desktop/src/setup.py
• docs/source/conf.py

Make sure snapcraft packaging works. In snap/snapcraft.yaml:

• The tor, libevent, and obfs4 parts should be updated if necessary
• All python packages should be updated to match cli/pyproject.toml and desktop/pyproject.toml
• Test the snap package, ensure it works

Make sure Flatpak packaging works. In flatpak/org.onionshare.OnionShare.yaml:

• Update tor, libevent, and obfs4 dependencies, if necessary
• Built the latest python dependencies using this tool (see below)
• Test the Flatpak package, ensure it works

# you may need to install toml
pip3 install --user toml

# clone flatpak-build-tools
git clone https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder-tools.git
cd flatpak-builder-tools/pip

# get onionshare-cli dependencies
./flatpak-pip-generator $(python3 -c 'import toml; print("\n".join([x for x in toml.loads(open("../../onionshare/cli/pyproject.toml").read())["tool"]["poetry"]["dependencies"]]))' |grep -v "^python$" |tr "\n" " ")
mv python3-modules.json onionshare-cli.json

# get onionshare dependencies
./flatpak-pip-generator $(python3 -c 'import toml; print("\n".join(toml.loads(open("../../onionshare/desktop/pyproject.toml").read())["tool"]["briefcase"]["app"]["onionshare"]["requires"]))' |grep -v "./onionshare_cli" |grep -v -i "pyside2" |tr "\n" " ")
mv python3-modules.json onionshare.json

# use something like https://www.json2yaml.com/ to convert to yaml and update the manifest
# add all of the modules in both onionshare-cli and onionshare to the submodules of "onionshare"
# - onionshare-cli.json
# - onionshare.json

Update the documentation:

• Update all of the documentation in docs to cover new features, including taking new screenshots if necessary

You also must edit these files:

• desktop/install/org.onionshare.OnionShare.appdata.xml should have the correct release date, and links to correct screenshots
• CHANGELOG.md should be updated to include a list of all major changes since the last release

Finally:

• There must be a PGP-signed git tag for the version, e.g. for OnionShare 2.1, the tag must be v2.1

The first step for the Linux, macOS, and Windows releases is the same.

Verify the release git tag:

git fetch
git tag -v v$VERSION

If the tag verifies successfully, check it out:

git checkout v$VERSION

Linux Flatpak release

You must have flatpak and flatpak-builder installed, with flathub remote added (flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists --user flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo).

Build and test the Flatpak package before publishing:

flatpak-builder build --force-clean --install-deps-from=flathub --install --user flatpak/org.onionshare.OnionShare.yaml
flatpak run org.onionshare.OnionShare

Once you confirm it works, create a single-file bundle:

flatpak build-bundle ~/.local/share/flatpak/repo OnionShare.flatpak org.onionshare.OnionShare

This will create OnionShare.flatpak.

Linux Snapcraft release

You must have snap and snapcraft (snap install snapcraft --classic) installed.

Build and test the snap before publishing:

snapcraft
snap install --devmode ./onionshare_$VERSION_amd64.snap

Run the OnionShare snap:

/snap/bin/onionshare     # GUI version
/snap/bin/onionshare.cli # CLI version

This will create onionshare_$VERSION_amd64.snap.

Linux AppImage release

Note: AppImage packages are currently broken due to this briefcase bug. Until it's fixed, OnionShare for Linux will only be available in Flatpak and Snapcraft.

Set up the development environment described in README.md.

Make sure your virtual environment is active:

. venv/bin/activate

Run the AppImage build script:

./package/linux/build-appimage.py

Windows

Set up the development environment described in README.md. And install the Windows 10 SDK and add C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x86 to your path.

Make sure your virtual environment is active:

venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Run the Windows build script:

python package\windows\build.py

This will create desktop/windows/OnionShare-$VERSION.msi, signed.

macOS

Set up the development environment described in README.md. And install create-dmg:

brew install create-dmg

Make sure your virtual environment is active:

. venv/bin/activate

Run the macOS build script:

./package/macos/build.py --with-codesign

Now, notarize the release. You must have an app-specific Apple ID password saved in the login keychain called onionshare-notarize.

• Notarize it: xcrun altool --notarize-app --primary-bundle-id "com.micahflee.onionshare" -u "micah@micahflee.com" -p "@keychain:onionshare-notarize" --file macOS/OnionShare.dmg
• Wait for it to get approved, check status with: xcrun altool --notarization-history 0 -u "micah@micahflee.com" -p "@keychain:onionshare-notarize"
• After it's approved, staple the ticket: xcrun stapler staple macOS/OnionShare.dmg

This will create desktop/macOS/OnionShare.dmg, signed and notarized.

Source package

To make a source package, run ./build-source.sh $TAG, where $TAG is the the name of the signed git tag, e.g. v2.1.

This will create dist/onionshare-$VERSION.tar.gz.

Publishing the release

After following all of the previous steps, gather these files:

• OnionShare.flatpak (rename it to OnionShare-$VERSION.flatpak)
• onionshare_$VERSION_amd64.snap
• OnionShare-$VERSION.msi
• OnionShare.dmg (rename it to OnionShare-$VERSION.dmg)
• onionshare-$VERSION.tar.gz

Create a PGP signature for each of these files, e.g:

gpg -a --detach-sign OnionShare-$VERSION.flatpak
gpg -a --detach-sign [... and so on]

Create a release on GitHub:

• Match it to the version tag, put the changelog in description of the release
• Upload all 10 files (binary and source packages and their .asc signatures)

Update onionshare.org:

• Upload all 10 files to https://onionshare.org/dist/$VERSION/
• Update the onionshare-website repo:
  • Edit latest-version.txt to match the latest version
  • Update the version number and download links
  • Deploy to https://onionshare.org/

Update Homebrew:

• Make a PR to homebrew-cask to update the macOS version

Update onionshare-cli on PyPi:

cd cli
poetry install
poetry publish --build

Update the community:

• Upload all 10 files to the OnionShare team Keybase filesystem
• Email the onionshare-dev mailing list announcing the release
• Tweet, toot, etc.