Release 0.34.0

[lucasmerlin]

Release process

• copy this checklist to a new egui issue, called "Release 0.xx.y"
• close all issues in the milestone for this release

Optional polish before a major release

• improve the demo a bit
• see if you can make web demo WASM smaller
• ./scripts/docs.sh: read and improve documentation of new stuff
• cargo update
• cargo outdated (or manually look for outdated crates in each Cargo.toml)

Release testing

• cargo r -p egui_demo_app and click around for while
• update eframe_template and test
• update egui_plot and test
• update egui_table and test
• update egui_tiles and test
• test with Rerun
• ./scripts/check.sh
• check that CI is green

Preparation

• make sure there are no important unmerged PRs
• Ensure we don't have any patch/git dependencies (e.g. kittest)
• Create a branch called release-0.xx.0 and open a PR for it
• run scripts/generate_example_screenshots.sh if needed
• write a short release note that fits in a bluesky post
• record gif for CHANGELOG.md release note (and later bluesky post)
• update changelogs
  • run scripts/generate_changelog.py --version 0.x.0 --write
  • read changelogs and clean them up if needed
  • write a good intro with highlight for the main changelog
• run typos

Actual release

• bump version numbers in workspace Cargo.toml
• check that CI for the PR is green
• publish the crates by running scripts/publish_crates.sh
• git tag -a 0.x.0 -m 'Release 0.x.0 - <release title>'
• git pull --tags ; git tag -d latest && git tag -a latest -m 'Latest release' && git push --tags origin latest --force ; git push --tags
• merge release PR as Release 0.x.0 - <release title>
• check that CI for main is green
• do a GitHub release: https://github.com/emilk/egui/releases/new
  • follow the format of the last release
• wait for the documentation build to finish: https://docs.rs/releases/queue
  • https://docs.rs/egui/ works
  • https://docs.rs/eframe/ works

Announcements

• Bluesky
• egui discord
• r/rust
• r/programming
• This Week in Rust

After release

• update eframe_template
• publish new egui_plot
• publish new egui_table
• publish new egui_tiles
• make a PR to egui_commonmark
• make a PR to rerun

Finally

• close the milestone
• close this issue
• improve RELEASES.md with what you learned this time around

[umajho]

Hello.

I noticed that #8028 has been merged. Does this mean that the upgrade to wgpu 29.0.1 (gfx-rs/wgpu#9309) will not be included in this release?
It contains a bug fix that seems worthwhile to include (see: #8012 (comment)).

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I mistook the thumb-up reaction from emilk on that comment in #8012 as an acknowledgment…
I'll take this as a lesson and make sure to also leave a comment on the relevant release issue/PR if a similar situation comes up in the future.

[emilk]

We decided to move forward without waiting for a wgpu patch release. Any eframe user can still update to wgpu 29.0.1 once it is released with cargo update -p wgpu. Anyone updating to eframe 0.34 after wgpu 29.0.1 is released will get the patch automatically.

[umajho]

That totally makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
And congrats on the new release!