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-name: Patch Release
-about: Create a new patch release [for release managers only]
-title: 'Release MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH+1'
-labels: 'release'
-assignees: ''
----
-
-# Creating a new patch release
-## Bumping BDK Rust Version
-1. - [ ] Open a PR with an update to `Cargo.toml` to the new bdk release candidate and ensure all CI workflows run correctly. Fix errors if necessary.
-2. - [ ] Once the new bdk release is out, update the PR to replace the release candidate with the full release and merge.
-
-### Specific Libraries' Workflows
-#### _Android_
-3. - [ ] Update the API docs to reflect the changes in the API
-4. - [ ] Delete the `target` directory in bdk-ffi and all previous artifacts to make sure you're building the library from scratch.
-5. - [ ] Build the library and run the tests, and adjust if necessary.
-```sh
-# start an emulator prior to running the tests
-cd ./bdk-android/
-./gradlew buildAndroidLib
-./gradlew connectedAndroidTest
-```
-6. - [ ] Update the readme if necessary
-#### _JVM_
-7. - [ ] Update the API docs to reflect the changes in the API
-8. - [ ] Delete the `target` directory in bdk-ffi and all previous artifacts to make sure you're building the library from scratch
-9. - [ ] Build the library and run the tests, and adjust if necessary
-```sh
-cd ./bdk-jvm/
-./gradlew buildJvmLib
-./gradlew test
-```
-10. - [ ] Update the readme if necessary
-#### _Swift_
-11. - [ ] Run the tests and adjust if necessary
-```sh
-./bdk-swift/build-local-swift.sh
-cd ./bdk-swift/
-swift test
-```
-12. - [ ] Update the readme if necessary
-#### _Python_
-13. - [ ] Delete the `.tox`, `dist`, `build`, and `bdkpython.egg-info` and rust `target` directories to make sure you are building the library from scratch without any caches
-14. - [ ] Build the library
-```shell
-cd ./bdk-python/
-pip3 install --requirement requirements.txt
-bash ./generate.sh
-python3 setup.py --verbose bdist_wheel
-```
-15. - [ ] Run the tests and adjust if necessary
-```shell
-pip3 install ./dist/bdkpython-<yourversion>-py3-none-any.whl --force-reinstall
-python -m unittest --verbose tests/test_bdk.py
-```
-16. - [ ] Update the readme and `setup.py` if necessary
-
-### Release Workflow
-17. - [ ] Update the Android, JVM, Python, and Swift libraries as per the _Specific Libraries' Workflows_ section above. Open a single PR on master for all of these changes called `Prepare language bindings libraries for 0.X release`. See [example PR here](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi/pull/315).
-- [ ] Create a new branch off of `master` called `release/version`
-18. - [ ] Open a PR to that branch to update the Android, JVM, and Python libraries' versions. See [example PR here](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi/pull/316).
-- [ ] Update bdk-android version from `SNAPSHOT` version to release version
-- [ ] Update bdk-jvm version from `SNAPSHOT` version to release version
-- [ ] Update bdk-python version from `.dev` version to release version
-19. - [ ] Merge the PR updating all the languages to their release versions
-20. - [ ] Create the tag and make sure to add the changelog info to the tag (works better if you prepare the tag message on the side in a text editor) and push it to GitHub.
-```sh
-git tag v0.6.0 --sign --edit
-git push upstream v0.6.0
-```
-21. - [ ] Aggregate all the changelog notices from the PRs and add them to the changelog file
-22. - [ ] Open a PR on master with the changes to the changelog file and the development versions bump. See [example PR here](https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi/pull/317).
-23. - [ ] Make release on GitHub (set as pre-release and generate auto release notes between the previous tag and the new one)
-24. - [ ] Trigger manual releases for all 4 libraries (for Swift, simply add the version number in the text field when running the workflow manually. Note that the version number must not contain the `v`, i.e. `0.26.0`)
-25. - [ ] Bump the versions on master from `0.9.0-SNAPSHOT` to `0.10.0-SNAPSHOT`, `0.6.0.dev0` to `0.7.0.dev0`
-26. - [ ] Build and publish API docs for JVM, Android, and Java on the website
-```bash!
-./gradlew dokkaHtml    # bdk-jvm (Dokka)
-./gradlew dokkaJavadoc # bdk-jvm (java-style documentation)
-./gradlew dokkaHtml    # bdk-android (Dokka)
-```
-27. - [ ] Tweet about the library
-28. - [ ] Post in the announcement channel