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🔨 Manually triggering a release build

Navigate to the Github Publish Workflow on the top right click on Run Workflow(if it doesn’t show you don’t have the necessary permissions)

This opens the manual trigger box:

Put in the version number for this release, remember the Version scheme from above: based on the current day and the version hotfix (which is none in this case), for the 27th of June 2024 this would be:

Optionally you can define that only certain targets are to be build and what version to compare for the changelog to (though that is autobuild from the .changes directory regardless). Then press run workflow to get the process started. Just a few seconds after that now working job is shown in the pipeline:

Click it to see the details:

The entire build and publishing process can take up to 90minutes, so lean back and relax. Don’t forget to do the manual publishing steps for iOS, MacOS and Microsoft after!

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Even after submitting the builds to Apple, it might take a bit more time before they show up in the Apple AppStore console. They are being processed by them first and only after that finished - which can take another hour or so depending on availability - it will show up. If you are an admin in the apple panel, you’ll receive an Email about that though