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Questions tagged [release]
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What is difference between release notes and changelog?
Software packages are often shipped with changelog and/or release notes. What's the difference between them? Should they be both included with release of a new version?
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Gradle Build Failure
My project compiles and executes well on debug mode but when i try to generate a signed apk, errors arise. This appears on the message log:
:app:proguardRelease
Warning:android.support.v4.app.DialogFragment: can't find referenced class…
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How to put assert into release builds in C/C++
I need to only run ship build and I need to assert on certain condition in release build to see if the problem is fixed. How do I do it?
pra che
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Web.config Build vs Release transform not working
I have an ASP.NET Web Application project that connects to a remote database via the Entity Framework. During debugging (eg running the project on my local computer), the IP address to the database is different than during release (eg after…
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Objective-C Difference between setting nil and releasing
I've learned that in dealloc you do [object release]; but in viewDidUnload (in a UIViewController subclass) you do self.object = nil. What is really the difference because self.object = nil (we're assuming object is a (nonatomic, retain) property)…
mk12
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android studio: release apk is not signed
* I have rephrased the post since originally posted *
When I try to run a just-built release apk, I get an error "the apk for your currently selected variant ... is not signed." This is in the Edit Configuration popup. Here are my steps:
In the…
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Django: auto minifying css/js files before release
I have following case: I want to use uncompressed js/css files during development (to debug js for example) but on production I want to switch automatically to minified versions of that files.
some simple solution is to put in your template:
dzida
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Gson deserialize null pointer in released apk
I'm writing an Android app need using gson to deserialize the json string:
{
"reply_code": 001,
"userinfo": {
"username": "002",
"userip": 003
}
}
so I create two classes:
public class ReturnData {
public String…
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Upload build artifact to Github as release in Jenkins
I'm searching for a way to upload a build artifact as Github Release in Jenkins as post-build action or publisher - similar to Publish Over.
This is not yet supported by the Github plugin for Jenkins (JENKINS-18598).
I've been looking into the…
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Download latest GitHub release
I'd like to have "Download Latest Version" button on my website which would represent the link to the latest release (stored at GitHub Releases). I tried to create release tag named "latest", but it became complicated when I tried to load new…
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How do you handle the tension between refactoring and the need for merging?
Our policy when delivering a new version is to create a branch in our VCS and handle it to our QA team. When the latter gives the green light, we tag and release our product. The branch is kept to receive (only) bug fixes so that we can create…
Xavier Nodet
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Force Maven clean
I have a project with 2 profiles, because UAT and PROD use different versions of the same jar.
I have noticed that if i don't explicitly call mvn clean ... the deployed EAR will have BOTH UAT and PROD jars.
Is there a way in the POM to specify that…
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Android Studio: run/debug release version of app
I have added gradle build to Android app, and can launch from Android Studio.
gradlew build produces debug and released (signed, minified with proguard) versions.
buildTypes {
debug {
zipAlignEnabled true
versionNameSuffix "-" +…
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How to handle debug/release config transformations in ASP.NET vNext
In previous versions of ASP.NET many of us used Web.Debug.config/Web.Release.config files trasformations that would look something like this:
Web.config:
2ooom
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Why have separate Debug and Release folders in Visual Studio?
By default, of course, Visual Studio creates separate bin folders for Debug and Release builds. We are having some minor issues dealing with those from the perspective of external dependencies, where sometimes we want release binaries and sometimes…
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