Release of Slicer 5.6 in progress

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

Today’s (November 24th) regular Preview and Stable builds of Slicer and associated extensions will be disabled in favor of a new stable release.

To track the progress, see Release Slicer v5.6 · Issue #7391 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

Update:

• Slicer 5.6 packages are being generated
• Regular Preview and Stable builds have NOT been resumed

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

Update

• Slicer 5.6.0 packages are now available for download. See https://download.slicer.org

  

  If you identify any issues related to packaging and/or signing of the packages, let us know

• Regular builds are resumed and expected to be published tomorrow

Next

• Finalize and publish release announcements
• Review remaining extensions build failures and submit issue reports and or pull requests. See CDash report.
• Update Signing-Application-Packages to account for notarization workflow updates
• Finalize the milestone. See here

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

This evening, regular Preview and Stable builds of Slicer and associated extensions will be disabled in favor of a patch release.

Fixes to be integrated are associated with the the Slicer 5.6.1 issue.

To track the progress, see Patch Release Slicer v5.6.1 · Issue #7443 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

Updates:

• Slicer 5.6.1 packages for Linux, macOS, and Windows have been generated.

Notes:

• Packages are being signed and will soon be available for download.

Screenshot(s):

Source: https://slicer.cdash.org/index.php?project=SlicerStable&date=2022-11-24

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

Updates:

• Slicer 5.6.1 packages are now available for download.

  

• Associated release notes are also published.

• Regular Stable and Preview builds are resumed and expected to be completed tomorrow.