release-process: Add attaching output of check-abi.sh to PR
What the developer wrote
Authored by Tim Ruffing
release-process: Add attaching output of check-abi.sh to PR
What changed, and why it matters
This is a documentation-only change to the project's release checklist. It adds a step telling release maintainers to attach the output of an ABI compatibility checking tool to release pull requests. There is no code change, no cryptographic change, and no security vulnerability.
No security action required. This is a process documentation update.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The commit modifies doc/release-process.md, adding one sentence to step 2 of the release process: maintainers should perform sanity checks and attach the output of tools/check-abi.sh (a screenshot of the generated compatibility HTML report) to the PR description. The diff is +2/-1 lines in a single Markdown file. No source code, build scripts, tests, or CI configuration are altered.
Changed components
doc/release-process.mdInspect captured patch +2 / −1
diff --git a/doc/release-process.md b/doc/release-process.md
index bc224ce..89fe05b 100644
--- a/doc/release-process.md
+++ b/doc/release-process.md
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ You can see your default key by running `echo "test" | gpg --sign --verbose > /d
* if this is not a patch release,
* updates `_PKG_VERSION_*` and `_LIB_VERSION_*` in `configure.ac`, and
* updates `project(libsecp256k1 VERSION ...)` and `${PROJECT_NAME}_LIB_VERSION_*` in `CMakeLists.txt`.
-2. Perform the [sanity checks](#sanity-checks) on the PR branch.
+2. Perform the [sanity checks](#sanity-checks) on the PR branch
+ and attach the output of the [`check-abi`](/tools/check-abi.sh) tool (screenshot of the generated compatibility HTML report) to the PR description.
3. After the PR has been merged, tag the commit, and push the tag:
```
RELEASE_COMMIT=<merge commit of step 1>
Why this scored 15/100
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