Hi all,
I just had the information that a customer of ours (UFZ Helmholtz) is willing to sponsor the next releases on the 4.4.x and 4.2.x branches, which means that we would be in charge of making them.
The next GN4 meeting is in two weeks (24.09), can we plan on discussing then when these releases should happen? Ideally (for us), it should happen around the end of September/beginning of October.
Thank you all!
Olivia
Hey Oliva - that is great, I think you can just start planning, if you have budget / capacity. The release process is much improved from a few years ago with a very helpful script now available.
Do you want to start an issue in the issue tracker or something to coordinate?
With Francois, I am reviewing some pending pull requests to be included in these releases.
We discussed about 1 October to make the release. Does this date work for you?
Regards,
Jose GarcĆa
The 2nd of October works perfectly for me! Thank you!
Thatās perfect @jahow, thanks.
I have created 2 PR to update translations.
Iāll update these PR on 29 October, to have the latest translations for the releases.
Hi @jahow
I have updated the previous pull requests to update the translations and make them ready for review.
Please check them to merge them before making the releases.
Regards,
Jose GarcĆa
Hi all!
Iām in the process of merging the remaining PRs for the version release today; Iāll also translate the remaining untranslated keys in French.
If anyone wants to complete the translations in other languages, please do it now!! as otherwise it wonāt be part of 4.4.9/4.2.14.
=> https://app.transifex.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/translate
Thank you all!
@jahow Let me know if thereās anything I can do to help with the release, thank you.
Thanks @Jose Garcia, Iāll wrap things up today (Friday was a public holiday in Germany).
Also please note that Iāll revert https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/pull/9054 as it was an error from my side to upgrade GN-UI so soon; I thought I could benefit from the recent release but it hasnāt been tested enough IMO.
Sounds good @jahow , thanks.
Hi all, the release is done and uploaded on Sourceforge. I didnāt push the artefacts on the OSGeo maven repo though (is that always done now for releases)?
Kinda struggled because I did a PR for the release but ended up squashing it so the separate commits were lost, which prevented a tag from being putā¦ anyways, Iāll try do to a post mortem somewhere and update the docs to avoid this in the future.
I still have to update the website and communicate on the mailing lists 
thanks for your patience
@jahow will you do the release of 4.2.14 also?
This is my plan yes, but I might need a bit more time for the 4.2.14 release (a week or two at most). If anyone wants to pick it up in the meantime, be my guest thanks
Yes, pushing up the artifacts to nexus repo is required for folks (like GeoCat and Camptocamp) that use the war overlay technique (which we presented in foss4g a few years ago).
Thanks,
Jody
@jahow Iāll check to make the release of 4.2.14 today or tomorrow
Thank you! Iāll update the website to include both 4.2.14 and 4.4.9
@jahow sorry, I see your latest message late, I created this PR:
Please if you can also merge this PR:
The releases are available. Docker images will be available soon. Thanks @jahow and @juanluisrp for the work in publishing the releases.
You can find the software at:
You can find a list of new functionalities and fixes for version 4.2.14 and for version v4.4.9.
If you have any improvements you want to contribute back, the best is to use git to get a local copy of the source code from the GeoNetwork GitHub repository, apply the fix and put out a pull request so your improvements can be integrated quickly. Otherwise you can also create new tickets in the GitHub issue tracker.
Thanks and congratulations to all the community members and developers that have been putting effort and energy in these releases and the documentation update.