Flutter Beta 1.17.0-dev.3.1 released, new release process details.
Patrick Sosinski
Hi all,
I’m happy to announce that Flutter 1.17 is now available on the beta channel: 1.17.0-dev.3.1
This release is the first in our new release process, which has the goal of unifying the Dart and Flutter releases while utilizing release branches.
We branched from master across Dart, flutter/engine and flutter/flutter on April 1 (no fooling!) for our 1.17 stable release.
branches:
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/flutter-1.17-candidate.3
https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/flutter-1.17-candidate.3
https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/tree/beta
For the next two weeks, we will accept some cherrypicks into these release branches and build new beta versions from these release branches (as dictated by cherrypicks.) An outline of the new cherrypick process is here: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-Cherrypick-Process
If/when we build another release candidate, it will be versioned similar to “1.17.0-dev.3.2”.
labels:
flutter/flutter: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/labels/cp%3A%201.17
flutter/engine: https://github.com/flutter/engine/labels/cp%3A%201.17
Towards the end of April, we will begin locking down the branches for the stable release of 1.17 and Dart 2.8, planned for around the end of the month. This means that these releases will be the code branched from master on April 1, and the cherrypicks deemed critical for the stability of the release. The planned release version will be 1.17.0. If we need to do a subsequent stable release with hotfixes, it will be 1.17.1.
As a developer, it would be in your interest to check out the 1.17 beta release now and see if there are issues affecting your product(s) before we get to stable!
The release process wiki will be updated in the coming days with more details on versioning, scheduling and process.
thanks,
Patrick on behalf of the Flutter team
