ci(release): publish releases from a tag, not from a laptop

There was no release workflow. Artifacts were built by `x release --publish` on
whatever machine the maintainer was sitting at, from whatever happened to be in
bin/, with no checksums and nothing proving the tagged tree passed its tests.

Pushing a v* tag now publishes. The workflow builds the toolchain from the IR
seed, runs `x test`, `x test-tools` and `x bootstrap-cfree` against the tagged
tree, and only then creates the Forgejo release. It refuses to publish when the
tag and VERSION disagree, or when CHANGELOG.md has no section for that version.

`x publish [vX.Y.Z]` is the command behind it and runs locally too. It builds
dist/ — a source tarball from the tag, this host's toolchain, and a SHA256SUMS
covering both — and takes the release notes from that version's CHANGELOG
section, so notes and changelog cannot drift. It only adds assets the release
is missing, which is how a macOS build gets attached to a Linux-built release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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name: release
# Cutting a release is `x release` + `git push --tags`; everything after that
# happens here. Before this workflow existed the artifacts were built on whatever
# machine the maintainer happened to be sitting at, from whatever was in bin/ at
# the time, with no checksums and nothing proving the tagged tree even passed its
# tests. Now the tag is the trigger and CI is the only thing that publishes.
#
# The job refuses to publish unless:
# * the tag matches the VERSION file in the tagged tree,
# * CHANGELOG.md has a section for that version (it becomes the release notes),
# * the toolchain builds from the IR seed and the whole suite passes,
# * the C-free bootstrap still reproduces the seed byte-for-byte.
#
# Needs a repository secret FORGEJO_TOKEN with write access to releases.
on:
push:
tags: ['v*']
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
tag:
description: 'Tag to publish (e.g. v0.4.0)'
required: true
jobs:
publish:
runs-on: docker
container: node:20-bookworm
steps:
- name: Install clang-16
run: |
set -eu
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get update -qq
apt-get install -y -qq --no-install-recommends clang-16 git ca-certificates curl
clang-16 --version | head -1
- name: Check out the tag
env:
REPO_URL: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}.git
INPUT_TAG: ${{ github.event.inputs.tag }}
run: |
set -eu
git config --global --add safe.directory '*'
# A full clone: `git archive` needs the tag object, and the tarball is
# built from the tag rather than from the working tree.
git clone "$REPO_URL" .
TAG="${INPUT_TAG:-${GITHUB_REF_NAME}}"
git checkout "$TAG"
echo "TAG=$TAG" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
# See ci.yml for why the Linux build injects the stdio shim via LUDIC_CC.
echo "LUDIC_CC=clang-16 $(pwd)/tools/ci/linux_stdio_shim.ll" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
echo "LUDIC_HOME=$(pwd)" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
- name: The tag, VERSION and CHANGELOG must agree
run: |
set -eu
VERSION="$(cat VERSION)"
if [ "$TAG" != "v${VERSION}" ]; then
echo "::error::tag ${TAG} does not match VERSION (${VERSION})"
exit 1
fi
if ! grep -q "^## v${VERSION} " CHANGELOG.md; then
echo "::error::CHANGELOG.md has no '## v${VERSION}' section to use as release notes"
exit 1
fi
echo "publishing ${TAG}"
- name: Build the toolchain from the IR seed (clang only)
run: |
set -eu
mkdir -p bin
clang-16 tools/ci/linux_stdio_shim.ll selfhost/ludicc.seed.ll -o bin/ludicc
bin/ludicc tools/x/main.ludic -o bin/x
bin/x build
- name: The tagged tree must pass its own suites
run: |
set -eu
bin/x test
bin/x test-tools
bin/x bootstrap-cfree
- name: Publish the release
env:
FORGEJO_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.FORGEJO_TOKEN }}
LUDIC_FORGEJO_API: ${{ github.server_url }}/api/v1/repos/${{ github.repository }}
run: |
set -eu
if [ -z "${FORGEJO_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
echo "::error::No FORGEJO_TOKEN secret; cannot create the release."
exit 1
fi
# x publish builds dist/ (source tarball from the tag, this host's
# toolchain, SHA256SUMS), takes the notes from the CHANGELOG section,
# and creates the release. Re-running it only adds missing assets, so
# a maintainer can afterwards attach the macOS toolchain from a Mac
# with the same command.
bin/x publish "$TAG"

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From a clean checkout, one line lifts the toolchain off the seed:
```bash
clang selfhost/ludicc.seed.ll -o bin/ludicc && bin/ludicc tools/x/main.ludic -o bin/x
mkdir -p bin && clang selfhost/ludicc.seed.ll -o bin/ludicc && bin/ludicc tools/x/main.ludic -o bin/x
```
That gives you `bin/x`, the Ludic task runner that replaces every build/test
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single source of truth and `ludicc --version` (or `x version`) reports it.
Releases are changeset-driven. Every user-facing change ships with a changeset
(step 5 above). To cut a release:
(step 5 above). Read the next release before cutting it:
```bash
x release --dry-run # render the CHANGELOG section, write nothing
```
Then cut it:
```bash
x release [major|minor|patch] # omit the level to derive it from the changesets
git push origin main --follow-tags
```
That aggregates the pending changesets into a new `CHANGELOG.md` section, bumps
`VERSION`, commits `chore(release): vX.Y.Z`, and tags it. Add `--publish` (with
`FORGEJO_TOKEN` set) to also push and create the Forgejo release with source and
toolchain tarballs. The tag doubles as the reproducible bootstrap point: the
source archive plus its checked-in seed rebuild that exact toolchain.
`x release` aggregates the pending changesets into a new `CHANGELOG.md` section
— grouped by change type, with each changeset's markdown kept intact — bumps
`VERSION`, commits `chore(release): vX.Y.Z`, and tags it.
**Pushing the tag is what publishes.** The `release` workflow builds the
toolchain from the IR seed, runs `x test`, `x test-tools` and `x bootstrap-cfree`
against the tagged tree, and only then creates the Forgejo release — with the
source tarball, a Linux toolchain build, `SHA256SUMS`, and that version's
`CHANGELOG.md` section as the notes. It refuses to publish if the tag and
`VERSION` disagree or the changelog has no section for it.
macOS artifacts cannot be produced on the Linux runner. To attach one, run the
same command CI runs from a Mac — it only adds assets the release is missing:
```bash
FORGEJO_TOKEN=… x publish v0.4.0
```
The tag doubles as the reproducible bootstrap point: the source archive plus its
checked-in seed rebuild that exact toolchain.
## Conventions

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bump: minor
type: ci
Releases are published by CI from a tag instead of by hand from a laptop. The
new `release` workflow triggers on a `v*` tag, builds the toolchain from the IR
seed, runs `x test`, `x test-tools` and `x bootstrap-cfree` against the tagged
tree, and only then creates the Forgejo release. It refuses to publish when the
tag and `VERSION` disagree or `CHANGELOG.md` has no section for that version.
`x publish [vX.Y.Z]` is the command behind it and works locally too: it builds
`dist/` (a source tarball from the tag, this host's toolchain, and a
`SHA256SUMS` covering both — releases previously shipped no checksums) and takes
the release notes from that version's `CHANGELOG.md` section, so the notes and
the changelog cannot drift. Re-running it only adds assets the release is
missing, which is how a macOS build gets attached to a Linux-built release.