# SilentDragonLite Release Process

## High-Level Philosophy

Beware of making high-risk changes too close to a new release, because they will not get as much testing as they should. Don't merge large branches which haven't undergone lots of testing just before a release.

It is best to keep doc/relnotes/README.md up to date as changes and bug fixes are made. It's more work to summarize all changes and bugfixes just before the release.

## Check for changes on master that should be on dev

See https://git.hush.is/hush/hush3/src/branch/master/doc/release-process.md#check-for-changes-on-master-that-should-be-on-dev , there is no sense repeating the exact same thing here.

SD+SDL very often has merge conflicts in generated translation files, because QT embeds line numbers in XML.
Read how to deal with them efficiently here: https://git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragon/src/branch/dev/doc/release-process.md#dealing-with-merge-conflicts

## Git Issues

Look for Git issues that should be fixed in the next release: https://git.hush.is/hush/SilentDragonLite/issues Especially low-risk and simple things and like documentation changes and improvements to error messages. Take note that changing strings in the source code, such as adding a new string or changing an existing one, will affect translations.

## Translations

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```
# update generated translation data
./build.sh linguist
git commit -am "update translations"
git push
```

## Adding Checkpoints

Adding checkpoints make SDL sync much faster, especially for brand new wallets. If there are no recent checkpoints,
when a user makes a new wallet, it will sync from a block far in the past, which wastes time, bandwidth and CPU resources. To add a checkpoint , they are added to the file `lib/src/lightclient/checkpoints.rs` in the silentdragonlite-cli repo, and then the dependency on silentdragonlite-cli is updated in this SDL repo. Here is an example commit that updates checkpoints:

https://git.hush.is/hush/silentdragonlite-cli/commit/ef477f152e1a8bb8a5f7883a99e2a74a6f9eeb0b

## Release process

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