Pass latest or stable to build/push-official-release.sh.

build/mark-stable-release.sh

-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Copyright 2015 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Marks the current stable version
-
-set -o errexit
-set -o nounset
-set -o pipefail
-
-if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
-  echo "Usage: ${0} <version>"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION="${1-}"
-
-KUBE_GCS_MAKE_PUBLIC='y'
-KUBE_GCS_RELEASE_BUCKET='kubernetes-release'
-KUBE_GCS_RELEASE_PREFIX="release/${KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION}"
-KUBE_GCS_PUBLISH_VERSION="${KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION}"
-
-KUBE_ROOT="$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/.."
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/build/common.sh"
-
-if "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kubectl.sh" 'version' | grep 'Client' | grep 'dirty'; then
-  echo "!!! Tag at invalid point, or something else is bad. Build is dirty. Don't push this build." >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-kube::release::gcs::publish_official 'stable'

build/push-official-release.sh

@@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
-  echo "Usage: ${0} <version>"
+if [[ "$#" -lt 1 ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: ${0} <version> [<type>]"
+  echo "(<type> defaults to 'latest')"
   exit 1
 fi
 
 KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION="${1-}"
+KUBE_RELEASE_TYPE="${2:-"latest"}"
 
 KUBE_GCS_NO_CACHING='n'
 KUBE_GCS_MAKE_PUBLIC='y'
@@ -53,4 +55,4 @@ fi
 kube::release::parse_and_validate_release_version "${KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION}"
 kube::release::gcs::release
 kube::release::docker::release
-kube::release::gcs::publish_official 'latest'
+kube::release::gcs::publish_official $KUBE_RELEASE_TYPE

docs/devel/releasing.md

@@ -213,10 +213,6 @@ release](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/releases/new):
    notes draft), and attach it to the release; and
 1. publish!
 
-Finally, from a clone of upstream/master, *make sure* you still have
-`RELEASE_VERSION` set correctly, and run `./build/mark-stable-release.sh
-${RELEASE_VERSION}`.
-
 ### Manual tasks for new release series
 
 *TODO(#20946) Burn this list down.*

release/build-official-release.sh

@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ else
   RELEASE_BRANCH="release-${VERSION_MAJOR}.${VERSION_MINOR}"
 fi
 
+if [[ "$KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION" =~ alpha|beta ]]; then
+  KUBE_RELEASE_TYPE="latest"
+else
+  KUBE_RELEASE_TYPE="stable"
+fi
+
 declare -r KUBE_BUILD_DIR=$(mktemp -d "/tmp/kubernetes-build-release-${KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION}-XXXXXXX")
 
 # Set the default umask for the release. This ensures consistency
@@ -107,7 +113,7 @@ cat <<- EOM
 Success!  You must now do the following (you may want to cut and paste these
 instructions elsewhere):
 
-  1) pushd ${KUBE_BUILD_DIR}; build/push-official-release.sh ${KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION}
+  1) pushd ${KUBE_BUILD_DIR}; build/push-official-release.sh ${KUBE_RELEASE_VERSION} ${KUBE_RELEASE_TYPE}
 
   2) Release notes draft, to be published when the release is announced: