v0.5.0 Release Checklist

[vestrel00]

Target release date

January 1, 2026

🎆 Happy New Year 🥳

Changes to be included in the release

⚠️ Proper semantic versioning is not being followed prior to version 1.0.0. This means that minor version bumps may contain breaking changes. More context in #284 (comment)

New features and improvements

None

Bug fixes

None

Breaking changes

None

Dependency upgrades

#370

Release management steps

Stuff that needs to be done before, during, and after the release.

Before publishing release

• Double check that there are no regressions for all relevant API functions!
• Double check that relevant documentation in code, README, DEV_NOTES, and all howto pages are correct.
• Ensure that JitPack main-SNAPSHOT branch is green and installable in a new project.
  • implementation 'com.github.vestrel00:contacts-android:main-SNAPSHOT'
  • Note that it may fail a few times in case this is the first time the dependency is being requested because JitPack migh be lazily providing it upon request. So, try for a few minutes.

Publishing the release

• Create the discussion page for the next release (0.6.0).
• Update the README with installation instructions for 0.5.0 and update links to the current (0.5.0) and next release (0.6.0).
• Go through all markdown files and replace any links to the 0.5.0 discussion page with links to the 0.5.0 release tag.
• Push changes to main.
• Create the 0.5.0 tag.
• Publish the 0.5.0 release.

After publishing release

• Update gh-pages branch.
• Sanity check install 0.5.0 from JitPack in a new project. (The first JitPack release build typically fails to install. Don't panic. Just delete the build and rebuild it.)
• Leave a comment in this discussion with a link to the release.
• Leave a comment in each of the above issues with a link to the release.
• Unpin this discussion and pin the next release's discussion page.
• Close the previous release's discussion/checklist page

[vestrel00]

Released! https://github.com/vestrel00/contacts-android/releases/tag/0.5.0