JIRA: Addams - 7.2.0

Prerequisites

• DEV: Create stable branch
  • DEV: Create a stable-7.2 branch based on current master
• Finish release candidate phase
  • DEV: Prepare release-7.2.0-rc.1:
    • DEV: Branch off stable-7.2 branch
    • DEV: Move all change log items from unreleased to 7.2.0-rc.1_2025-06-12
    • DEV: Bump ocis version in ocis-pkg/version/version.go
    • DEV: Bump ocis version in sonar-project.properties
    • DEV: Create PR with [full-ci][k6-test] against stable-7.2 - [full-ci][k6-test] Release 7.2.0-rc.1 #11449
    • DEV: Get PR approved. DO NOT MERGE YET
    • DEV: Wait for pipeline to be green
    • DEV: Create tag: git tag -s v7.2.0-rc.1 -m "Release 7.2.0-rc.1"
    • DEV: Push tag: git push origin v7.2.0-rc.1
    • DEV: Watch the PR to see pipeline succeed (can be restarted)
    • DEV: Generate Changelog: make changelog CHANGELOG_VERSION=7.2.0-rc.1
    • DEV: Merge PR
  • DEV: Prepare release-7.2.0-rc.2:
    • DEV: Branch off stable-7.2 branch
    • DEV: Move all change log items from unreleased to 7.2.0-rc.2_2025-07-09
    • DEV: Bump ocis version in ocis-pkg/version/version.go
    • DEV: Bump ocis version in sonar-project.properties
    • DEV: Create PR with [full-ci][k6-test] against stable-7.2 - [full-ci][k6-test] Release 7.2.0-rc.2 #11519
    • DEV: Get PR approved. DO NOT MERGE YET
    • DEV: Wait for pipeline to be green
    • DEV: Create tag: git tag -s v7.2.0-rc.2 -m "Release 7.2.0-rc.2"
    • DEV: Push tag: git push origin v7.2.0-rc.2
    • DEV: Watch the PR to see pipeline succeed (can be restarted)
    • DEV: Generate Changelog: make changelog CHANGELOG_VERSION=7.2.0-rc.2
    • DEV: Merge PR
  • Sync with DevOps and Product - repeat process with rc.2,rc.3,... until all issues are fixed

QA Phase

• QA: Confirmatory testing (See changelogs)
  • ocis @nirajacharya2
  • web 12.0.0 - 12.0.2
• QA: Compatibility testing between 7.1.3 and Addams
• QA: Performance testing (K6 tests - runs in CI): K6 pipeline is ✅
• QA: e2e with different deployment (check CI of ocis bump in web) - CI is ✅
• QA: smoke testing
  • smoke test
  • text editor test
  • web office test

Bug Reports

• Cannot download large files from a link share #11518
• Watermark visible to user with viewer role in Collabora #11474
• Fix collabora and onlyoffice in example full deployment #11514

Postponed issues

The following issues were moved out of scope for Addams - 7.2.0:

• Downloading large archives in public links with passwords fails web#12811
• Viewer-role user in OnlyOffice do not receive real-time document updates and collaborator cursor #11473
• Clicking on a shared item from the notification does not select the item web#10398

After QA Phase

• Create release branch for 7.2.0
  • Branch off stable-7.2 branch
  • Move all changelog items from 7.2.0-rc.* to 7.2.0-rc.2_2025-07-09
  • Bump ocis version in ocis-pkg/version/version.go
  • Bump ocis version in sonar-project.properties
  • Create PR with [full-ci][k6-test] against stable-7.2 [full-ci][k6-test] Release 7.2.0 (Addams) #11528
  • Get PR approved. DO NOT MERGE YET
  • Wait for pipeline to be green
• Get release sign-off (Confluence)
• Release 7.2.0 ocis version
  • Create tag: git tag -s v7.2.0 -m "Release 7.2.0"
  • Push tag: git push origin v7.2.0
  • Watch the PR to see pipeline succeed (can be restarted)
  • Merge PR
  • Announce release in teams channel oCIS

Post-release communication

• Create other stable branches, cronjobs and clean up
• Backport release to master branch
• Create a docs-stable branch
  • Create orphan branch git checkout --orphan docs-stable-7.2
  • Initial commit: git commit --allow-empty -m "initial commit"
  • Push git push
• Adjust .drone.star file to write to docs-stable-7.2
  • Find target_branch value in the docs section and change it to docs-stable-7.2
  • Example: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/blame/56f7645f0b11c9112e15ce46f6effd2fea01d6be/.drone.star#L2249
• Add stable-7.2 to the nightly cron jobs in drone (Settings -> Cron Jobs)

Post-release communication (OLD VERSION)

• DEV: Create a docs-stable-x.y branch based on the docs folder in the ocis repo
• DEV/QA: Ping documentation in RC about the new release tag (for ocis/helm chart version bump in docs)
• DEV/QA: Ping marketing to update all download links (download mirrors are updated at the full hour, wait with ping until download is actually available)
• DEV/QA: Ping the demo instances are running this release
• DEV: Merge back release branch
• DEV: Create stable-x.y branch in the ocis repo from final tag

Docs (OLD VERSION)

Note that the following points depend on items finished described above. The sort order may change therefore.

• Create added/removed/deprecated ennvars adoc table in ocis to be referenced by x.y docs
• Add changes in docs-ocis to x.y (migration, upgrading, cli, changed version for envvars etc) + backport
• Add release notes in docs-main
• Reference new x.y branch from docs-ocis in the doc repo + update global attributes file