dev_release.md

Developer Release Procedure

To release a new version of the widgets on PyPI and npm, first checkout master and cd into the repo root. Make sure the frontend version in ipywidgets/_version.py matches the JS frontend version.

Publish jupyter-js-widgets

# nuke the  `dist` and `node_modules`
git clean -fdx
npm version [patch/minor/major]
npm install
npm publish --tag next

widgetsnbextension

Edit package.json to point to new jupyter-js-widgets version npm version [patch/minor/major]

Edit widgetsnbextension/_version.py (Remove dev from the version. If it's the first beta, use b1, etc...)

python setup.py sdist
python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
twine upload dist/*

JupyterLab

Edit the package.json to have jupyter-js-widgets point to the correct version.

npm version patch/minor/major
npm install
npm run build
npm publish
python setup.py sdist
python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
twine upload dist/*

ipywidgets

edit ipywidgets/_version.py (remove dev from the version and update the frontend version requirement to match the one of jupyter-js-widgets)

Change setup.py install_requires parameter to point to new widgetsnbextension version

python setup.py sdist
python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
twine upload dist/*

Push changes back

commit and tag (ipywidgets) release

Back to dev

edit ipywidgets/_version.py (increase version and add dev tag)
edit widgetsnbextension/widgetsnbextension/_version.py (increase version and add dev tag)
git add ipywidgets/_version.py
git add widgetsnbextension/widgetsnbextension/_version.py
git commit -m "Back to dev"
git push [upstream master]
git push [upstream] --tags

On GitHub

1. Go to https://github.com/ipython/ipywidgets/milestones and click "Close" for the released version.
2. Make sure patch, minor, and/or major milestones exist as appropriate.