Release Akka gRPC 2.2.0

[patriknw]

Before the release

• Make sure all important / big PRs have been merged by now
• Create a news item draft PR on akka.github.com, using the draft release

Cutting the release

• Make sure the Github Actions build for the commit you would like to release has completed.
• Tag the release git tag -a -m 'Release v2.2.0' v2.2.0 and push the tag git push --tags
• Check that the GitHub Actions release build has executed successfully (it should publish artifacts to Sonatype and documentation to Gustav)

Check availability

• Check reference documentation
• Check the release on Maven central

When everything is on maven central

• ssh akkarepo@gustav.akka.io
  • update the current links on repo.akka.io to point to the latest version with

    ln -nsf 2.2.0 www/docs/akka-grpc/current
    ln -nsf 2.2.0 www/api/akka-grpc/current
    

  • check changes and commit the new version to the local git repository

    cd ~/www
    git add docs/akka-grpc/current docs/akka-grpc/2.2.0
    git add api/akka-grpc/current api/akka-grpc/2.2.0
    git commit -m "Akka gRPC 2.2.0"
    

  • push changes to the remote git repository

    cd ~/www
    git push origin master
    

Announcements

• Merge draft news item for akka.io
• Edit the release draft with the next tag version v2.2.0, title and release description.
• Send a release notification to Lightbend discuss
• Tweet using the akkateam account (or ask someone to) about the new release
• Announce on Gitter akka/akka
• Announce internally
• Update to the released version here
• For minor releases, record it here

Afterwards

• Close this issue