Cut 0.29.0 release

[maxgio92]

Scheduled to happen: 2021-06-09

We can make the release happen as the features are merged.

Release Steps

Process is described in this document

Release Blocking PRs

• libs #48
• build: upgrade driver version to 17f5d #1669
• libs #50
• build: upgrade driver version to 17f5d #1669
• test-infra #434

Action Items

• Pre-release: Prebuilt drivers publish
• Pre-release: Milestones
• Pre-release: Changelog docs(changelog.md): add release 0.29.0 #1677 docs(changelog.md): update for release 0.29.0 #1682
• Release: Tag
• Release: GH Release
• Docs: Meeting-notes new(meeting-notes): archiving community calls notes regarding Falco 0.29 community#140
• Announcements: Blog falco-website #457
• Announcements: Send email to cncf-falco-dev mailing list
• Announcements: Falco Slack channel
• Website snapshot

Open Questions

/milestone 0.29.0
/assign @maxgio92 @leogr @jonahjon
/kind documentation

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Scheduled to happen: 2021-06-09

We can make the release happen as the features are merged.

Release Steps

Process is described in this document: https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/blob/master/RELEASE.md

Release Blocking Fix

• libs #48

Action Items

• [] Update release documentation
• [] Update DBG configurations
• [] Prebuilt drivers publish
• [] Pre: Release notes
• [] Pre: Milestones
• [] Pre: Changelog update
• Tag
• GH Release
• [] Meeting-notes
• Blog
• Send email to cncf-falco-dev mailing list
• Announce in Falco slack channel

Open Questions

/milestone 0.29.0
/assign @maxgio92 @leogr
/kind documentation

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[leogr]

This is the driver upgrade we need to merge before releasing 0.29.0: #1669

It includes the fix (ie. falcosecurity/libs#48) for the packages building issue we had recently.

[maxgio92]

Thanks @leogr!

I think we should move the other open PRs (except the #1669) to a next milestone. WDYT?

[maxgio92]

Hello @falcosecurity/falco-maintainers, I think we should postpone this release in a couple of days as we need new (version 41b1e) prebuilt drivers ready but we have to wait for previous and blocking updates:

• May 27th updates
• June 2nd updates
• June 6th updates

I think that this is mainly due to the test-infra #421 issue for which the test-infra fix PR #422 should be ready to be approved if you like it.

Then (not needed now), this test-infra PR #410 should then help to speed up prebuilt drivers building by splitting the most time-intensive jobs for Ubuntu distro.

What do you think?

[jonahjon]

Anything to speed up the drivers build job would be preferable.

[jonahjon]

Like the idea @maxgio92

[maxgio92]

Hello @falcosecurity/falco-maintainers, as discussed with @leogr we'd wait to publish the latest version of the prebuilt drivers until #1669 is merged.
Doing so we prevent from being stuck in case that candidate driver version for 0.29.0 won't be the confirmed.
WDYT?

[maxgio92]

Update:
libs #50 has been merged! 🥳

[maxgio92]

Update:
Waiting for #1669 and #1675 to be completed so that we'll ship support for unprivileged userfaultd with 0.29.0 🚀

[leodido]

In the meantime, I also sent falcosecurity/test-infra#434 to create the Falco prebuilt drivers for 0.29.0.

[maxgio92]

Update:

As discussed we decided to go on with the release as the prebuilt drivers are ready 🚀

[leogr]

Update:
Since the only precondition left is the building the drivers, I have moved forward.
So I have moved the PRs not yet completed to a new minor milestone.

[maxgio92]

Update:
Prepared the blog release announcement
The DBG PR for the new drivers version has been merged, and Prow is building and publishing them, here.

[maxgio92]

Update:
A changelog update has been proposed #1682

[maxgio92]

Update:
Prebuilt drivers have been published here.
Changelog is up to date.
Blog post is ready.

[maxgio92]

I think we're ready to tag!

[leogr]

❯ git push origin 0.29.0
Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
To https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco
 * [new tag]           0.29.0 -> 0.29.0

🚀

The CI started 👇
https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/falcosecurity/falco/1574/workflows/55d57de1-a8a8-4f3e-a79c-ee818dad860f

[leogr]

https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/releases/tag/0.29.0 🥳

[leogr]

Website snapshot for 0.28.0 👉 https://v0-28.falco.org/

[maxgio92]

Thanks @leogr!

[maxgio92]

I think we can close this :)