release checklist 0.9

[justinmk]

(previous: #18374)

• Release guidelines
• Dependencies

Pre-release (early)

• Runtime updates
• Query updates from nvim-treesitter
• run scripts/download-unicode-files.sh
• Bump deps in third-party/CMakeLists.txt
  • run scripts/bump_deps.lua (luajit, luv, libuv, treesitter)
  • treesitter parsers (C, Lua, Viml, Vimdoc, Query)
  • luarocks build(deps): bump luarocks and bundled rocks #22680
  • libvterm
  • msgpack
• Bump luarocks packages (example) build(deps): bump luarocks and bundled rocks #22680
• Bump neovim-qt in third-party/CMakeLists.txt (example)
• Update (individual) wintools [security] Bundled MS Windows dependencies: known security issues and non-official sources #14078

Pre-release

• Remove deprecated functions marked for 0.9 (refactor!: remove deprecated functions #22627)
• Clean up news.txt (sorting, phrasing)
• Remove the .deb from the release script (ci!: remove the .deb release #22773)
• Run scripts/release.sh

Post-release

• For major releases, create a new release-x.y branch.
  • Bump the version in CMakeLists.txt and set NVIM_VERSION_PRERELEASE.
• Review status:revisit-at-release issues
• Move news.txt to news-0.9.txt (and remove/update tags!), add blank news.txt
• Newsletter https://github.com/neovim/neovim.github.io
• Remove deprecated:
  • remove support for old treesitter query injection format ref

[dundargoc]

We can remove pkgconfig, libtool and perl as build dependencies from the wiki after release.

Edit: I think c++ too, but I'd first confirm on each distro before we remove it to be extra sure.

[dundargoc]

@justinmk on "Update wintools.zip": can we make this process simpler in some way? Compared to bumping other dependencies this is slighty more involved. It's not a big problem of course, but reducing busywork is always nice. Especially during releases when things tend to be more hectic.

[dundargoc]

• If the cmake download helper can just download binaries, then we can push the binaries directly to https://github.com/neovim/deps and get rid of wintools.zip

Pretty sure this is exactly what the DOWNLOAD_NO_EXTRACT option is for. Can test it when I have the chance.

• in the case of cat that could be a cat.c source file that we build instead of including it as a binary
  • also for tee?

I think this could be worth a shot. Do you know where the cat and tee source code is?

• if curl can be downloaded from a third-party source, that's also great. Assuming it can handle our CI constantly fetching from it.

No clue, but will investigate.

[justinmk]

Do you know where the cat and tee source code is?

BSD is a good source:

• https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/tee/tee.c
• https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cat/cat.c

[linrongbin16]

Do you know where the cat and tee source code is?

BSD is a good source:

• https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/tee/tee.c
• https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/cat/cat.c

GNU coreutils also has the cat/tee implementation: coreutils/src

[dundargoc]

GNU coreutils also has the cat/tee implementation: [coreutils/src](https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/tree/master/src

Hmm, the GNU implementations have around 3x more code for some reason. BSD implementations seem simpler.