Table of contents
- What the provider packages are
- Provider packages
- Decide when to release
- Provider packages versioning
- Prepare Regular Provider packages (RC)
- Increasing version number
- Generate release notes
- Build provider packages for SVN apache upload
- Build and sign the source and convenience packages
- Commit the source packages to Apache SVN repo
- Publish the Regular convenience package to PyPI
- Add tags in git
- Prepare documentation
- Prepare issue in GitHub to keep status of testing
- Prepare voting email for Providers release candidate
- Verify the release by PMC members
- Verify by Contributors
- Publish release
The Provider packages are separate packages (one package per provider) that implement integrations with external services for Airflow in the form of installable Python packages.
The Release Manager prepares packages separately from the main Airflow Release, using
breeze
commands and accompanying scripts. This document provides an overview of the command line tools
needed to prepare the packages.
NOTE!! When you have problems with any of those commands that run inside breeze
docker image, you
can run the command with --debug
flag that will drop you in the shell inside the image and will
print the command that you should run.
The prerequisites to release Apache Airflow are described in README.md.
You can read more about the command line tools used to generate the packages in the Provider packages.
You can release provider packages separately from the main Airflow on an ad-hoc basis, whenever we find that a given provider needs to be released - due to new features or due to bug fixes. You can release each provider package separately, but due to voting and release overhead we try to group releases of provider packages together.
We are using the SEMVER versioning scheme for the provider packages. This is in order to give the users confidence about maintaining backwards compatibility in the new releases of those packages.
Details about maintaining the SEMVER version are going to be discussed and implemented in the related issue
First thing that release manager has to do is to change version of the provider to a target
version. Each provider has a provider.yaml
file that, among others, stores information
about provider versions. When you attempt to release a provider you should update that
information based on the changes for the provider, and it's CHANGELOG.rst
. It might be that
CHANGELOG.rst
already contains the right target version. This will be especially true if some
changes in the provider add new features (then minor version is increased) or when the changes
introduce backwards-incompatible, breaking change in the provider (then major version is
incremented). Committers, when approving and merging changes to the providers, should pay attention
that the CHANGELOG.rst
is updated whenever anything other than bugfix is added.
If there are no new features or breaking changes, the release manager should simply increase the patch-level version for the provider.
The new version should be first on the list.
Each of the provider packages contains Release notes in the form of the CHANGELOG.rst
file that is
automatically generated from history of the changes and code of the provider.
They are stored in the documentation directory. The README.md
file generated during package
preparation is not stored anywhere in the repository - it contains however link to the Changelog
generated.
When the provider package version has not been updated since the latest version, the release notes are not generated. Release notes are only generated, when the latest version of the package does not yet have a corresponding TAG.
The tags for providers is of the form providers-<PROVIDER_ID>/<VERSION>
for example
providers-amazon/1.0.0
. During releasing, the RC1/RC2 tags are created (for example
providers-amazon/1.0.0rc1
).
Details about maintaining the SEMVER version are going to be discussed and implemented in the related issue
breeze prepare-provider-documentation [packages]
This command will not only prepare documentation but will also help the release manager to review changes implemented in all providers, and determine which of the providers should be released. For each provider details will be printed on what changes were implemented since the last release including links to particular commits.
This should help to determine which version of provider should be released:
- increased patch-level for bugfix-only change
- increased minor version if new features are added
- increased major version if breaking changes are added
It also helps the release manager to update CHANGELOG.rst where high-level overview of the changes should be documented for the providers released. You should iterate and re-generate the same content after any change as many times as you want. The generated files should be added and committed to the repository.
When you want to regenerate the changes before the release and make sure all changelogs are updated, run it in non-interactive mode:
breeze prepare-provider-documentation --answer yes [packages]
Those packages might get promoted to "final" packages by just renaming the files, so internally they should keep the final version number without the rc suffix, even if they are rc1/rc2/... candidates.
They also need to be signed and have checksum files. You can generate the checksum/signature files by running the "dev/sign.sh" script (assuming you have the right PGP key set-up for signing). The script generates corresponding .asc and .sha512 files for each file to sign.
- Cleanup dist folder:
export AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT=$(pwd)
rm -rf ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*
- Release candidate packages:
breeze prepare-provider-packages --package-format both
if you only build few packages, run:
breeze prepare-provider-packages --package-format both PACKAGE PACKAGE ....
- Sign all your packages
pushd dist
../dev/sign.sh *
popd
- Push the artifacts to ASF dev dist repo
# First clone the repo if you do not have it
svn checkout https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow airflow-dev
# update the repo in case you have it already
cd airflow-dev
svn update
# Create a new folder for the release.
cd providers
# Remove previously released providers
rm -rf *
# Move the artifacts to svn folder
mv ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/* .
# Add and commit
svn add *
svn commit -m "Add artifacts for Airflow Providers $(date "+%Y-%m-%d%n")"
cd ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}
Verify that the files are available at providers
In case of pre-release versions you build the same packages for both PyPI and SVN so you can simply use packages generated in the previous step, and you can skip the "prepare" step below.
In order to publish release candidate to PyPI you just need to build and release packages.
The packages should however contain the rcN suffix in the version file name but not internally in the package,
so you need to use --version-suffix-for-pypi
switch to prepare those packages.
Note that these are different packages than the ones used for SVN upload
though they should be generated from the same sources.
- Generate the packages with the right RC version (specify the version suffix with PyPI switch). Note that this will clean up dist folder before generating the packages, so you will only have the right packages there.
rm -rf ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*
breeze prepare-provider-packages --version-suffix-for-pypi rc1 --package-format both
if you only build few packages, run:
breeze prepare-provider-packages --version-suffix-for-pypi rc1 --package-format both PACKAGE PACKAGE ....
- Verify the artifacts that would be uploaded:
twine check ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*
- Upload the package to PyPi's test environment:
twine upload -r pypitest ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*
-
Verify that the test packages look good by downloading it and installing them into a virtual environment. Twine prints the package links as output - separately for each package.
-
Upload the package to PyPi's production environment:
twine upload -r pypi ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*
- Again, confirm that the packages are available under the links printed.
Assume that your remote for apache repository is called apache
you should now
set tags for the providers in the repo.
./dev/provider_packages/tag_providers.sh
Documentation is an essential part of the product and should be made available to users.
In our cases, documentation for the released versions is published in a separate repository -
apache/airflow-site
, but the documentation source code
and build tools are available in the apache/airflow
repository, so you have to coordinate between
the two repositories to be able to build the documentation.
Documentation for providers can be found in the /docs/apache-airflow-providers
directory
and the /docs/apache-airflow-providers-*/
directory. The first directory contains the package contents
lists and should be updated every time a new version of provider packages is released.
- First, copy the airflow-site repository and set the environment variable
AIRFLOW_SITE_DIRECTORY
.
git clone https://github.com/apache/airflow-site.git airflow-site
cd airflow-site
export AIRFLOW_SITE_DIRECTORY="$(pwd)"
- Then you can go to the directory and build the necessary documentation packages
cd "${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}"
breeze build-docs --for-production --package-filter apache-airflow-providers \
--package-filter 'apache-airflow-providers-*'
Usually when we release packages we also build documentation for the "documentation-only" packages. This means that unless we release just few selected packages or if we need to deliberately skip some packages we should release documentation for all provider packages and the above command is the one to use.
If we want to just release some providers you can release them in this way:
cd "${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}"
breeze build-docs --for-production \
--package-filter apache-airflow-providers \
--package-filter 'apache-airflow-providers-PACKAGE1' \
--package-filter 'apache-airflow-providers-PACKAGE2' \
...
If you have providers as list of provider ids because you just released them, you can build them with
./dev/provider_packages/build_provider_documentation.sh amazon apache.beam google ....
- Now you can preview the documentation.
./docs/start_doc_server.sh
- Copy the documentation to the
airflow-site
repository
NOTE In order to run the publish documentation you need to activate virtualenv where you installed apache-airflow with doc extra:
pip install apache-airflow[doc]
All providers (including overriding documentation for doc-only changes):
./docs/publish_docs.py \
--package-filter apache-airflow-providers \
--package-filter 'apache-airflow-providers-*' \
--override-versioned
cd "${AIRFLOW_SITE_DIRECTORY}"
If you have providers as list of provider ids because you just released them you can build them with
./dev/provider_packages/publish_provider_documentation.sh amazon apache.beam google ....
-
If you publish a new package, you must add it to the docs index:
-
Create the commit and push changes.
branch="add-documentation-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d%n")"
git checkout -b "${branch}"
git add .
git commit -m "Add documentation for packages - $(date "+%Y-%m-%d%n")"
git push --set-upstream origin "${branch}"
Create a GitHub issue with the content generated via manual execution of the script below. You will use link to that issue in the next step. You need a GITHUB_TOKEN set as your environment variable.
You can also pass the token as --github-token
option in the script.
./dev/provider_packages/prepare_provider_packages.py generate-issue-content --only-available-in-dist
You can also generate the token by following this link
Make sure the packages are in https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow/providers/
Send out a vote to the [email protected] mailing list. Here you can prepare text of the email.
subject:
cat <<EOF
[VOTE] Airflow Providers prepared on $(date "+%B %d, %Y")
EOF
cat <<EOF
Hey all,
I have just cut the new wave Airflow Providers packages. This email is calling a vote on the release,
which will last for 72 hours - which means that it will end on $(date -d '+3 days').
Consider this my (binding) +1.
<ADD ANY HIGH-LEVEL DESCRIPTION OF THE CHANGES HERE!>
Airflow Providers are available at:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow/providers/
*apache-airflow-providers-<PROVIDER>-*.tar.gz* are the binary
Python "sdist" release - they are also official "sources" for the provider packages.
*apache_airflow_providers_<PROVIDER>-*.whl are the binary
Python "wheel" release.
The test procedure for PMC members who would like to test the RC candidates are described in
https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDER_PACKAGES.md#verify-the-release-by-pmc-members
and for Contributors:
https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDER_PACKAGES.md#verify-by-contributors
Public keys are available at:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/airflow/KEYS
Please vote accordingly:
[ ] +1 approve
[ ] +0 no opinion
[ ] -1 disapprove with the reason
Only votes from PMC members are binding, but members of the community are
encouraged to test the release and vote with "(non-binding)".
Please note that the version number excludes the 'rcX' string.
This will allow us to rename the artifact without modifying
the artifact checksums when we actually release.
The status of testing the providers by the community is kept here:
<TODO COPY LINK TO THE ISSUE CREATED>
You can find packages as well as detailed changelog following the below links:
<PASTE TWINE UPLOAD LINKS HERE. SORT THEM BEFORE!>
Cheers,
<TODO: Your Name>
EOF
Due to the nature of packages, not all packages have to be released as convenience packages in the final release. During the voting process the voting PMCs might decide to exclude certain packages from the release if some critical problems have been found in some packages.
Please modify the message above accordingly to clearly exclude those packages.
The files should be present in Airflow dist
The following files should be present (6 files):
- .tar.gz + .asc + .sha512 (one set of files per provider)
- -py3-none-any.whl + .asc + .sha512 (one set of files per provider)
As a PMC you should be able to clone the SVN repository:
svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow/
Or update it if you already checked it out:
svn update .
Optionally you can use check_files.py
script to verify that all expected files are
present in SVN. This script may help also with verifying installation of the packages.
python check_files.py -v {VERSION} -t providers -p {PATH_TO_SVN}
This can be done with the Apache RAT tool.
- Download the latest jar from https://creadur.apache.org/rat/download_rat.cgi (unpack the binary, the jar is inside)
- Unpack the release source archive (the
<package + version>.tar.gz
file) to a folder - Enter the sources folder run the check
java -jar ../../apache-rat-0.13/apache-rat-0.13.jar -E .rat-excludes -d .
where .rat-excludes
is the file in the root of Airflow source code.
Make sure you have imported into your GPG the PGP key of the person signing the release. You can find the valid keys in KEYS.
You can import the whole KEYS file:
gpg --import KEYS
You can also import the keys individually from a keyserver. The below one uses Kaxil's key and retrieves it from the default GPG keyserver OpenPGP.org:
gpg --keyserver keys.openpgp.org --receive-keys CDE15C6E4D3A8EC4ECF4BA4B6674E08AD7DE406F
You should choose to import the key when asked.
Note that by being default, the OpenPGP server tends to be overloaded often and might respond with errors or timeouts. Many of the release managers also uploaded their keys to the GNUPG.net keyserver, and you can retrieve it from there.
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --receive-keys CDE15C6E4D3A8EC4ECF4BA4B6674E08AD7DE406F
Once you have the keys, the signatures can be verified by running this:
for i in *.asc
do
echo -e "Checking $i\n"; gpg --verify $i
done
This should produce results similar to the below. The "Good signature from ..." is indication
that the signatures are correct. Do not worry about the "not certified with a trusted signature"
warning. Most of the certificates used by release managers are self-signed, and that's why you get this
warning. By importing the key either from the server in the previous step or from the
KEYS page, you know that
this is a valid key already. To suppress the warning you may edit the key's trust level
by running gpg --edit-key <key id> trust
and entering 5
to assign trust level ultimate
.
Checking apache-airflow-2.0.2rc4.tar.gz.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'apache-airflow-2.0.2rc4.tar.gz'
gpg: Signature made sob, 22 sie 2020, 20:28:28 CEST
gpg: using RSA key 12717556040EEF2EEAF1B9C275FCCD0A25FA0E4B
gpg: Good signature from "Kaxil Naik <[email protected]>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 1271 7556 040E EF2E EAF1 B9C2 75FC CD0A 25FA 0E4B
Checking apache_airflow-2.0.2rc4-py2.py3-none-any.whl.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'apache_airflow-2.0.2rc4-py2.py3-none-any.whl'
gpg: Signature made sob, 22 sie 2020, 20:28:31 CEST
gpg: using RSA key 12717556040EEF2EEAF1B9C275FCCD0A25FA0E4B
gpg: Good signature from "Kaxil Naik <[email protected]>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 1271 7556 040E EF2E EAF1 B9C2 75FC CD0A 25FA 0E4B
Checking apache-airflow-2.0.2rc4-source.tar.gz.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'apache-airflow-2.0.2rc4-source.tar.gz'
gpg: Signature made sob, 22 sie 2020, 20:28:25 CEST
gpg: using RSA key 12717556040EEF2EEAF1B9C275FCCD0A25FA0E4B
gpg: Good signature from "Kaxil Naik <[email protected]>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 1271 7556 040E EF2E EAF1 B9C2 75FC CD0A 25FA 0E4B
Run this:
for i in *.sha512
do
echo "Checking $i"; shasum -a 512 `basename $i .sha512 ` | diff - $i
done
You should get output similar to:
Checking apache-airflow-providers-google-1.0.0rc1.tar.gz.sha512
Checking apache_airflow-providers-google-1.0.0rc1-py3-none-any.whl.sha512
This can be done (and we encourage to) by any of the Contributors. In fact, it's best if the actual users of Apache Airflow test it in their own staging/test installations. Each release candidate is available on PyPI apart from SVN packages, so everyone should be able to install the release candidate version.
You can use any of the installation methods you prefer (you can even install it via the binary wheels downloaded from the SVN).
You have to make sure you have Airflow 2* installed in your PIP virtualenv (the version you want to install providers with).
pip install apache-airflow-providers-<provider>==<VERSION>rc<X>
breeze start-airflow --use-airflow-version 2.2.4 --python 3.7 --backend postgres \
--load-example-dags --load-default-connections
After you are in Breeze:
pip install apache-airflow-providers-<provider>==<VERSION>rc<X>
NOTE! You should Ctrl-C
and restart the connections to restart airflow components and make sure new
provider packages is used.
If you prefer to build your own image, you can also use the official image and PyPI packages to test provider packages. This is especially helpful when you want to test integrations, but you need to install additional tools. Below is an example Dockerfile, which installs providers for Google/
FROM apache/airflow:2.2.3
RUN pip install --user apache-airflow-providers-google==2.2.2.rc1
USER ${AIRFLOW_UID}
To build an image build and run a shell, run:
docker build . --tag my-image:0.0.1
docker run -ti \
--rm \
-v "$PWD/data:/opt/airflow/" \
-v "$PWD/keys/:/keys/" \
-p 8080:8080 \
-e AIRFLOW__CORE__LOAD_EXAMPLES=True \
my-image:0.0.1 bash
Once you install and run Airflow, you can perform any verification you see as necessary to check that the Airflow works as you expected.
Once the vote has been passed, you will need to send a result vote to [email protected]:
Subject:
[RESULT][VOTE] Airflow Providers - release of DATE OF RELEASE
Message:
Hello,
Apache Airflow Providers (based on RC1) have been accepted.
3 “+1” binding votes received:
- Jarek Potiuk (binding)
- Kaxil Naik (binding)
- Tomasz Urbaszek (binding)
Vote thread:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/736404ca3d2b2143b296d0910630b9bd0f8b56a0c54e3a05f4c8b5fe@%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E
I'll continue with the release process, and the release announcement will follow shortly.
Cheers,
<your name>
The best way of doing this is to svn cp between the two repos (this avoids having to upload the binaries again, and gives a clearer history in the svn commit logs.
We also need to archive older releases before copying the new ones Release policy
cd "<ROOT_OF_YOUR_AIRFLOW_REPO>"
# Set AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT to the path of your git repo
export AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT=$(pwd)
# Go to the directory where you have checked out the dev svn release
# And go to the sub-folder with RC candidates
cd "<ROOT_OF_YOUR_DEV_REPO>/providers/"
export SOURCE_DIR=$(pwd)
# If some packages have been excluded, remove them now
# Check the packages
ls *<provider>*
# Remove them
svn rm *<provider>*
# Go the folder where you have checked out the release repo
cd "<ROOT_OF_YOUR_RELEASE_REPO>"
# or clone it if it's not done yet
svn checkout https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/airflow airflow-release
cd airflow-release
# Update to latest version
svn update
# Create providers folder if it does not exist
# All latest releases are kept in this one folder without version sub-folder
mkdir -pv providers
cd providers
# Copy your providers with the target name to dist directory and to SVN
rm ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*
for file in ${SOURCE_DIR}/*
do
base_file=$(basename ${file})
cp -v "${file}" "${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/${base_file//rc[0-9]/}"
svn mv "${file}" "${base_file//rc[0-9]/}"
done
# Check which old packages will be removed (you need python 3.7+)
python ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dev/provider_packages/remove_old_releases.py \
--directory .
# Remove those packages
python ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dev/provider_packages/remove_old_releases.py \
--directory . --execute
# Commit to SVN
svn commit -m "Release Airflow Providers on $(date "+%Y-%m-%d%n")"
Verify that the packages appear in providers
By that time the packages should be in your dist folder.
cd ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}
git checkout <ONE_OF_THE_RC_TAGS_FOR_ONE_OF_THE_RELEASED_PROVIDERS>
- Verify the artifacts that would be uploaded:
twine check ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*.whl ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*.tar.gz
- Upload the package to PyPi's test environment:
twine upload -r pypitest ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*.whl ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*.tar.gz
-
Verify that the test packages look good by downloading it and installing them into a virtual environment. Twine prints the package links as output - separately for each package.
-
Upload the package to PyPi's production environment:
twine upload -r pypi ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*.whl ${AIRFLOW_REPO_ROOT}/dist/*.tar.gz
Copy links to updated packages.
- Again, confirm that the packages are available under the links printed.
Merge the PR that you prepared before with the documentation.
If you decided to remove some packages from the release make sure to do amend the commit in this way:
- find the packages you removed in
docs-archive/apache-airflow-providers-<PROVIDER>
- remove the latest version (the one you were releasing)
- update
stable.txt
to the previous version - in the (unlikely) event you are removing first version of package:
- remove whole
docs-archive/apache-airflow-providers-<PROVIDER>
folder - remove package from
docs-archive/apache-airflow-providers/core-extensions/index.html
(2 places) - remove package from
docs-archive/apache-airflow-providers/core-extensions/connections.html
(2 places) - remove package from
docs-archive/apache-airflow-providers/core-extensions/extra-links.html
(2 places) - remove package from
docs-archive/apache-airflow-providers/core-extensions/packages-ref.html
(5 places)
- remove whole
Assume that your remote for apache repository is called apache
you should now
set tags for the providers in the repo.
./dev/provider_packages/tag_providers.sh
- Notify [email protected] (cc'ing [email protected] and [email protected]) that the artifacts have been published:
Subject:
cat <<EOF
Airflow Providers released on $(date "+%B %d, %Y") are ready
EOF
Body:
cat <<EOF
Dear Airflow community,
I'm happy to announce that new versions of Airflow Providers packages were just released.
TODO: If there is just a few packages to release - paste the links to PyPI packages. Otherwise delete this TODO (too many links make the message unclear).
The source release, as well as the binary releases, are available here:
https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-providers/installing-from-sources
You can install the providers via PyPI: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-providers/installing-from-pypi
The documentation is available at https://airflow.apache.org/docs/ and linked from the PyPI packages.
Cheers,
<your name>
EOF
Add the release data (version and date) at: https://reporter.apache.org/addrelease.html?airflow
Don't forget to thank the folks who tested and close the issue tracking the testing status.