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Rewrite RELEASE.md to match the cleaner style of the TS SDK release doc. Core and Legacy now both use a prep-release branch flow with PR-based merges. Core keeps the Microsoft.Teams.Apps preview suffix unchanged. Adds sections for hotfixes, experimental features, and version bumping. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
This PR rewrites the repository release guide to make the .NET SDK release process more concise and easier to follow.
Changes:
- Replaces the older pipeline-heavy release documentation with step-by-step Core and Legacy release flows.
- Adds guidance for hotfixes, experimental versions, major/minor bumps, publishing, and approvers.
- Updates release instructions around prep-release branches and public publishing.
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| 2. Select **teams-net-publish** | ||
| 3. Click **Approvals and checks** | ||
| 4. Add/remove approvers as needed | ||
| 1. Edit `version.json` on `main` |
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Use git merge -s ours strategy to avoid conflicts when merging prep-release branches into release branches. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents the post-publish step for creating the GitHub Release and tag, including the fallback PR-delta query for when auto-generated notes are sparse due to squash-merge ancestry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| 2. Update `version.json` to set the stable version (remove the `-preview.{height}` suffix): | ||
| - **Core**: edit `core/version.json` (e.g., set `"version": "1.0.3"`) | ||
| - Do **not** modify `core/src/Microsoft.Teams.Apps/version.json` — keep its preview suffix as-is for now | ||
| - **Legacy**: edit root `version.json` (e.g., set `"version": "2.0.8"`) |
| - **Legacy** (`Libraries/`): root `version.json` (e.g., `2.0.7-preview.{height}`) | ||
| - **Core** (`core/`): `core/version.json` (e.g., `1.0`) | ||
| 7. Bump the version on `main` for the next release cycle: | ||
| - **Core**: edit `core/version.json` (e.g., `"1.0.3-preview.{height}"` → `"1.0.4-preview.{height}"`) |
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| - `Libraries/**`, `Samples/**`, `Tests/**`, `Microsoft.Teams.sln`, `version.json` → Legacy | ||
| - `core/**` → Core | ||
| - `.editorconfig`, `.azdo/**`, `Makefile` → both (shared infrastructure) | ||
| - `**/*.md`, `docs/**`, `Assets/**` → neither (skipped) |
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| - **Main branch**: `X.Y.Z-preview.1`, `X.Y.Z-preview.2`, etc. (prerelease) | ||
| - **Release branch**: `X.Y.Z` (stable, published to nuget.org) | ||
| - **Feature branch**: versions include the commit hash (e.g., `2.0.7-preview.42-g1a2b3c4`) |
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Summary
Microsoft.Teams.Appskeeping its preview suffix1.0.2→ next1.0.3publicReleaseRefSpecnotesTest plan
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