These are chores that we should do before starting the cycle to reduce ripple effects if we do it in mid-cycle.

Tips:

• Clean your repo before start
• Remove node_modules from all folder
  • git clean -fdx
• Never delete package-lock.json
• If you mess it up, tableflip and redo
• In component/package.json
  • Remove reference to botframework-webchat-core by hand-modifying package.json
  • Then, npm install
  • Then, add those references back by hand-modifying package.json
  • Also for other packages with similar dependencies

Applies to all releases

This list should be copied to versions in the future.

1. Bump package.json to 4.7.2-0
   • The PR number is [P0] Bump to 4.7.2-0 #2738
2. On QFE branch, make sure CHANGELOG.md is cherry-picked to master

Applies to major/minor releases

• Update all samples to use 4.7.1
• Bump all dependencies to latest version
  • All NPM packages (@babel/*, jest, lerna, typescript, webpack, etc) (Bump dev and prod dependencies for post-release #2533)
  • Docker container for headless Chrome (Update Chrome to 78.0.3904.70 #2545)
  • Don't bump the following packages
    • react, react-dom, redux, redux-saga
      • Locking down for app compatibility
    • remark and strip-markdown
      • remark don't work under IE11
      • Go to the repos and see if this is fixed or by design
    • serve
    • rxjs on playground
• Run npm audit fix to make sure everything is fixed
• Test under IE11 to make sure all dependencies are working