Scheduled release for August 13th, 2021

[eslint-github-bot]

The next scheduled release will occur on Friday, August 13th, 2021.

Release Day Checklist

• Remove the 'tsc agenda' label on this issue
• Review open pull requests and merge any that are ready
• Start the release on Jenkins
• Update the release blog post with a "Highlights" section
• Make a release announcement on Twitter
• Make a release announcement in the Discord '#announcements' channel
• Add a comment to this issue saying the release is out
• Add the 'patch release pending' label to this issue

Two Days After Release Day Checklist

Typically Monday for regular releases; two days after patch releases.

• Check the issues list for any regression issues

No Regressions Checklist

• Remove the 'patch release pending' label from this issue
• Close this issue

Patch Release Checklist

• Resolve the regression by merging any necessary fixes
• Start the release on Jenkins
• Update the release blog post with a "Highlights" section
• Make a release announcement on Twitter
• Make a release announcement in the Discord '#announcements' channel
• Add a comment to this issue saying the release is out
• Wait two days and repeat the Two Days After a Release checklist
• Close this issue

Followup

Please use this issue to document how the release went, any problems during the release, and anything the team might want to know about the release process. This issue should be closed after all patch releases have been completed (or there was no patch release needed).

Resources:

• Release guidelines

[btmills]

This will be the first v8.0.0 beta prerelease! Other than selecting "betarelease" instead of "release" when kicking off the build, is anyone aware of anything that I'll need to do manually that isn't part of a normal release?

[btmills]

The first attempt at releasing this failed because Makefile.js still used linter, which is no longer available. The fix was easy: #14932

[btmills]

The release is out! https://eslint.org/blog/2021/08/eslint-v8.0.0-beta.0-released

Since this is a prerelease, we won't be holding anything for a patch release. I'll keep this issue open in case we need to do an immediate follow-up release on Monday.

[btmills]

CI started failing for Node 16 once the version was bumped to v8.0.0-beta.0. Several dev dependencies have a peer dependency on ESLint, but prereleases don't normally satisfy semver ranges, so Node 16's new resolution algorithm is failing to install in CI. #14933 adds the --force flag for Node 16 in CI, which should fix CI until we release v8.0.0 final.

[btmills]

We haven’t received any reports of the beta setting anyone’s build server on fire, so I’ll call that a win and move on to the next release in two weeks!