Release Details

Details for ET_2025_05

Gallery Example	Volunteer
BNS	Leo Werneck
BBH	Zach Etienne
TOV	Johnny Tsao
Scalar Wave	Lucas Sanches
Poisson Equation	Steve Brandt
Black-hole hair in axi-dilaton gravity	Deborah Ferguson

Inclusions for this release (champion, reviewer):
- Z4c (Erik/Roland, Steve/Peter)
- BHaHAHA (Zach, Peter)
- CCE [Spectre] (Deborah, Lucas)
- FLRWSolver (Hayley, Zach)
Gallery Examples:
- New axi-dilaton gallery example (already reviewed)

2025-01-23 (-18wk): propose functionality to include
2025-02-13 (-15wk): choose features which are going to be included
- ask for review volunteers, assign tasks to people
- create tickets for each proposed item tickets repo
- decide on a list of release-critical compute systems
2025-03-20 (-10wk): all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review)
2025-04-17 (-6wk): all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review
2025-04-17 (-6wk): regenerate Kranc and NRPy+ codes
2025-04-17 (-6wk): start testing
- gallery examples
- test simfactory on clusters
- test in docker images / VM for "common" OS
2025-04-24 (-5wk): decide on name
2025-05-01 (-4wk): feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
2025-05-01 (-4wk): create first draft of the release notes as an md file
- Identify contributors to the release
- Identify the release team
- Identify major changes to call out in the release notes.
2025-05-01 (-4wk): announce date publicly
2025-05-15 (-2wk): draft release announcement
2025-05-22 (-1wk): testing done
2025-05-22 (-1wk): hard freeze, no more changes at all
2025-05-22 (-1wk): make branches, prepare updates for websites, test-send announcement (to maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org)
2025-05-29: release date

Inclusions for this release (champion, reviewer):
- TOVola (David, Maxwell)
- ~~Z4c (Erik, Steve)~~ missing test cases

2024-08-02 (-18wk): propose functionality to include
2024-08-23 (-15wk): choose features which are going to be included
- ask for review volunteers, assign tasks to people
- create tickets for each proposed item tickets repo
- decide on a list of release-critical compute systems
2024-09-27 (-10wk): all codes proposed for inclusion in master branch (still under review)
2024-10-18 (-6wk): all codes proposed for inclusion have finished review
2024-10-18 (-6wk): regenerate Kranc and NRPy+ codes
2024-10-18 (-6wk): start testing
- gallery examples
- test simfactory on clusters
- test in docker images / VM for "common" OS
2024-10-25 (-5wk): decide on name
2024-11-01 (-4wk): feature freeze: no new features allowed anymore, extensive testing begins
2024-11-01 (-4wk): create first draft of the release notes as an md file
- Identify contributors to the release
- Identify the release team
- Identify major changes to call out in the release notes.
2024-11-01 (-4wk): announce date publicly
2024-11-15 (-2wk): draft release announcement
2024-11-22 (-1wk): testing done
2024-11-22 (-1wk): hard freeze, no more changes at all
2024-11-22 (-1wk): make branches, prepare updates for websites, test-send announcement (to maintainers@einsteintoolkit.org)
2024-11-29: release date

Testsuite status page
Instructions for running the tests using SimFactory: Testsuite Machines
Release announcements: wiki sandbox
See list in Release Process
Testing is performed on the latest version of common operating systems, for example Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Scientific Linux, Mac OS etc. People often want to build the ET on their laptop or workstation. Instructions for which packages etc are needed can be found in the respective Simfactory option list. This information could also be provided on the Cactus website.

Test status is on Release coordination page.