colord Release Notes

1. Write NEWS entries for colord in the same format as usual.

git shortlog 1.4.7.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new

Version 1.4.8
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2025-xx-xx

New Features:
Bugfixes:

2: Update translations:

ninja colord-pot
cd ..
tx push --source
tx pull --all --minimum-perc=5
git add po/*.po

# MAKE SURE THIS IS CORRECT
export release_ver="1.4.8"

3. Generate the tarball:
git commit -a -m "Release colord ${release_ver}"
git tag -s -f -m "Release colord ${release_ver}" "${release_ver}"
ninja dist
git push --tags
git push
gpg -b -a meson-dist/colord-${release_ver}.tar.xz

4. Upload tarball:

scp meson-dist/colord-${release_ver}.tar.* hughsient@annarchy.freedesktop.org:/srv/www.freedesktop.org/www/software/colord/releases/

5. Do post release version bump in meson.build

6. Commit changes:

git commit -a -m "trivial: post release version bump"
git push

7. Send an email to colord@lists.freedesktop.org

colord is a system activated daemon that maps devices to color profiles.

See https://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/ for more details.

Tarballs can be found here:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/releases/
