Release 3.5.18

[johanandren]

Release Akka SDK 3.5.18

Prepare

• Make sure all important PRs have been merged
• Check that the latest build successfully finished
• Make sure a version of the Akka Runtime that supports the protocol version the SDK expects has been deployed to production. You can check this on Dependencies.scala

You can see the Akka Runtime version on prod on grafana.

Cutting the release

• Update the license version and change date, merge the PR created by:

  bin/update-license-and-pr.sh 3.5.18
  

• Draft a new release with the tag version v3.5.18. Use the Generate release notes button and finally press Publish release.
  • CI will automatically publish to the repository based on the tag
  • CI will update the docs/kalix-current branch

Update to the latest version

• Review and merge PR created by bot (should appear here). While reviewing confirm the release version is updated for:
  • SDK version in the samples/*/pom.xml files

Publish latest docs

• Add a summary of relevant changes into docs/src/modules/reference/pages/release-notes.adoc
• Create a PR and merge (do not squash) main into docs-current.
  Note that the PR will be pretty big normally, not only involving documentation files.

  gh pr create --base docs-current --head main --title "Publish docs for 3.5.18" --body "MERGE, DON'T SQUASH"
  

Update samples

• Run https://github.com/akka/akka-sdk/actions/workflows/pr-akka-samples.yml from the release tag v3.5.18
• Merge auto-PRs in akka-samples https://github.com/orgs/akka-samples/repositories?q=sort%3Aname-asc
  • Easiest is to use .github/akka-sample-sdk-bump-prs.sh script to collect all PR links or do it manually from "Open PR with changes" in https://github.com/akka/akka-sdk/actions/workflows/pr-akka-samples.yml
• Bump runtime SDK projects

Announcements

• Add a summary of relevant changes and a link to the release notes into Akka Release Notes aggregation
• Close this issue