RELEASE.md

Release process

Upon releasing a new version there's some checks and updates to be made:

Note both laravel-zero/framework and laravel-zero/laravel-zero are tagged at the same time and contain the same version.

On the laravel-zero/framework repository:

• Clear your local repository with: git add . && git reset --hard && git checkout master
• On the github website, check the contents on github.com/laravel-zero/framework/compare/{latest_version}...master and update the changelog file with the modifications on this release

Note: make sure that there is no breaking changes and you may use git tag --list to check the latest release

• Commit the CHANGELOG.md with the message: git commit -m "release: bumps version to vX.X.X"
• Runs the tests locally using: composer test
• git push
• Check the CI, and see if tests are passing as expected: https://github.com/laravel-zero/framework/actions
• git tag vX.X.X - example git tag v6.0.1
• git push --tags

On the laravel-zero/laravel-zero repository:

• Clear your local repository with: git add . && git reset --hard && git checkout master
• Update the changelog with the same contents of github.com/laravel-zero/framework/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• Commit the CHANGELOG.md with the message: git commit -m "release: bumps version to vX.X.X"
• git push
• Check the CI, and see if tests are passing as expected: https://github.com/laravel-zero/laravel-zero/actions
• git tag vX.X.X - example git tag v6.0.1
• git push --tags

Make a tweet about the release attributing credits to the external collaborators