Release checklist

These are the steps for publishing a new release of Neon:

Update release notes

• Update the release notes in RELEASES.md.
• Update the authors list in AUTHORS.md with any new contributors.

Bump version numbers

• Run ./dev/bump.sh patch
• Visually verify the printed diff

Validate the repo

• Run ./dev/validate.sh
• Ensure the validation passed

Commit, push, and release on GitHub

• Run ./dev/commit.sh dherman
• Input personal access token when prompted

Publish

• Run ./dev/publish.sh

Steps to manually publishing N-API pre-release

The following should be performed prior to the full release.

1. In Cargo.toml:
   1. append -napi to the release number: a.b.c-napi.
   2. Change the default feature flag to napi-experimental
   3. Remove [workspace] section
   4. Change docs.rs features to features = ["docs-only", "event-queue-api", "proc-macros", "try-catch-api"]
2. cargo publish --no-verify --allow-dirty to publish with unstaged files
3. Reset changes with git checkout --hard