Status of 3.13 Release?

[richb-hanover]

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Back in September 2023, it was announced that version 3.13 was ready for translation.

Do you have a projected release date? There's lots of good stuff that has evolved since 3.12... Thanks

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[justinclift]

We've created some initial "Release Candidate 1" type of packages (a few weeks ago), but our windows signing certificate stuff has expired so we're getting that sorted out. 😄

Should only be a few more weeks. 😄

[Spatino19]

Is the RC1 still fine to use? It's been a few months so I don't know if it's stable enough.

[justinclift]

Ahhh. Grab the build from here for now then. It's just missing a translation update for one language from what will be the final thing (in theory):

https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/releases/tag/v3.13.x-rc1

Note that if you're on windows though, it'll probably give you some warning about the package not being signed by a known developer. That's what we're still waiting on the external crowd for. 😉

[Spatino19]

Thank you

[richb-hanover]

@justinclift - any news on a 3.13 release version? What would prevent you from releasing in the next week? (Thanks, and I mean this entirely respectfully... If it's a single translation that's missing, you could include that item in the CHANGELOG...)

[justinclift]

We're waiting on part of the Windows binaries signing process.

[richb-hanover]

Thanks for that update. I have to say that the RC1 version has worked perfectly for my (limited) use case and testing.

There has been a lot of work since the RC1 release. Would you consider branching and creating a RC2 tag to "memorialize" the current state of the software? That would also let you rehearse the "release procedures" that need to happen when the Windows version does get signed.

Thank you again for this delightful piece of software.

[lucydodo]

I apologize for the delayed release.
Recently we've been working on some changes to build process that we need to make, and I'm hoping to have that done by the end of the month at the latest, at which point we'll be able to consider a RC2 release, and maybe talk about a stable release again.

[richb-hanover]

No apologies necessary, and I want to say this is terrific news. Thanks!

[richb-hanover]

One more thought: I just noticed the chronological list of updates (2023, 2022, 2021...) on the Home page.

I would encourage you to keep that list up-to-date, at least with brief entries for:

• 2023: 3.13-rc1 version available (This is a big deal!)
• 2024: Working on code signing for Windows binary using signpath.io

Those notes would assure (panicky / whiny) people (like me) that there is still progress. Thanks again.

[justinclift]

Heh Heh Heh. Any interest in making a PR with those additions?

Website repo is here: https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/website

😁

[richb-hanover]

Yes - I left a couple questions at sqlitebrowser/website#22