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# Releasing Terraform
# Building Terraform
This document contains details about the Terraform release process.
## Schedule
Terraform currently has no fixed release schedule, the HashiCorp maintainers
can usually give a feel for roughly when the next release is planned.
This document contains details about the process for building binaries for
Terraform.
## Versioning
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## Process
For maintainer documentation purposes, here is the current release process:
If only need to build binaries for the platform you're running (Windows, Linux,
Mac OS X etc..), you can follow the instructions in the README for [Developing
Terraform][1].
The guide below outlines the steps HashiCorp takes to build the official release
binaries for Terraform. This process will generate a set of binaries for each supported
platform, using the [gox](https://github.com/mitchellh/gox) tool.
A Vagrant virtual machine is used to provide a consistent envirornment with
the pre-requisite tools in place. The specifics of this VM are defined in the
[Vagrantfile](Vagrantfile).
```sh
# clone the repository if needed
git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git
cd terraform
# Spin up a fresh build VM
vagrant destroy -f
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
# The Vagrantfile installs Go and configures the $GOPATH at /opt/gopath
# The current "terraform" directory is then sync'd into the gopath
cd /opt/gopath/src/github.com/hashicorp/terraform/
# Fetch dependencies
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# Verify unit tests pass
make test
# Build the release
# This generates binaries for each platform and places them in the pkg folder
make release
```
After running these commands, you should have
# Prep release commit
export VERSION="vX.Y.Z"
# Edit CHANGELOG.md, adding current date to unreleased version header
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git add -A
git commit -m "release: clean up after ${VERSION}"
```
[1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform#developing-terraform