On 5/8/25 17:47, Neil C Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > As most of you should be aware, I'm migrating the existing Codelerity > installers to the Friends of Apache NetBeans foundation. These will > be a key source of packages for users as we are not including > installers in the Apache NetBeans 26 release. The community > installers will continue to be built with NBPackage from the official > Apache NetBeans binary zip release. > > The migration has included partly automating the installer build > process with GitHub Actions. There is some more work to do leading up > to NetBeans 27. The installer repository includes the build workflows > - https://github.com/Friends-of-Apache-NetBeans/netbeans-installers > Longer term we should be able to open up access to this process to any > other members of the PMC who are interested in helping with it. > > Release candidate installers for 26-rc3 are at - > https://github.com/Friends-of-Apache-NetBeans/netbeans-installers/releases/tag/v26rc3-build1
nice! gave the .rpm a quick try and everything worked great. > > They were built in the workflow at - > https://github.com/codelerity/foan-netbeans-installers/actions/runs/14901730393 > This is a copy of the repo (see same hash) so that we can use > Codelerity's secrets for these builds. The NetBeans 26 community > installers will continue to be signed by Codelerity until FoAN has > everything in place to take this over. > > The workflow uses a single-source Java file to handle downloading and > validating NBPackage, the NetBeans zip and the Java runtimes. The > build.properties file has the actual links and hashes for the various > artefacts. > > There will be a landing page similar to the existing one at > https://www.codelerity.com/netbeans/ once the main release is ready. > This will obviously replace that link on the download page once we get > to NB26 - see current community installers links at > https://netbeans.apache.org/front/main/download/nb25/ - the first two > sections will need revising. NB26 dl page draft PR is at https://github.com/apache/netbeans-antora-site/pull/41 -mbien > > > I just thought I'd share an update on progress here, in case of > interest, questions, concerns, etc. > > Thanks and best wishes, > > Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
