CLDR BRS Tasks to Post a Release

Title was: CLDR BRS Post Items (Section E) for Rick

Update the links in table at top of release page & download page for each release announcement

Before each stage of the release, alpha, beta, and release, the items in the key need to be updated to the latest version. Below is an example of the links for both a major and minor release. See the CLDR Process: Specification Changes for information on how redirects for the spec work when dot releases are announced.

Note:

| No. | Date | Rel. Note | Data | Charts | Spec | Delta Tickets | GitHub Tag | Delta DTD | CLDR JSON |
|:---:|:----------:|:---------:|:------:|:--------:|:------------:|:---:|:----------:|:---------:|:---------:|
|  48 | 2025-10-29 | [v48][] | [CLDR48][] | [Charts48][] | [LDML48][] | [Δ48][] | [release-48][] | [ΔDtd48][] | [48.0.0][] |

<!-- 48 release: 2025-10-29 -->
[v48]: /downloads/cldr-48
[CLDR48]: https://unicode.org/Public/cldr/48/
[Charts48]: https://unicode.org/cldr/charts/48
[LDML48]: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-76/tr35.html
[Δ48]: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLDR%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Done%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Fixed%20AND%20fixversion%20%3D%2048%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC
[release-48]: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/releases/tag/release-48
[ΔDtd48]: https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/48/supplemental/dtd_deltas.html
[48.0.0]: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/releases/tag/48.0.0

An example of a the links for a dot release may look like:

| No. | Date | Rel. Note | Data | Charts | Spec | Delta Tickets | GitHub Tag | Delta DTD | CLDR JSON |
|:---:|:----------:|:---------:|:------:|:--------:|:------------:|:---:|:----------:|:---------:|:---------:|
|  48.1 | 2026-01-08 | [v48.1] | [CLDR48.1] | TBD | [LDML48.1] | [Δ48.1] | [release-48-1] | n/a | [48.1.0] |

<!-- 48.1 release: 2026-01-08 -->
[v48.1]: /downloads/cldr-48#481-changes
[CLDR48.1]: https://unicode.org/Public/cldr/48.1/
[Charts48]: https://unicode.org/cldr/charts/48.1/
[LDML48.1]: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/48/tr35.html
[release-48-1-final1]: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/releases/tag/release-48-1
[Δ48.1]: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLDR%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Done%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Fixed%20AND%20fixversion%20%3D%2048.1%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC
[48.1.0]: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/releases/tag/48.1.0

Updating News Item

Updating “news” items on main page under the ‘News**’ header.

In the “News” section at the top of the page, add a new yellow top row for the alpha (for the beta/release, reuse that row). Remove announcements of change in Survey Tool status, and any additional old releases from the list (major ≤ alpha-2 - leaving only 2 recent major releases). Ideally there should be at most 3-4 items in the news section at at time.

Collect CLDR Contributors

Get contributors for http://cldr.unicode.org/index/acknowledgments

https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/graphs/contributors?from=2020-11-01\&to=2021-03-22\&type=c

See also: https://github.com/orgs/unicode-org/people

But there’s apparently no way to find email addresses, and no way to send a broadcast message.

Actions for Rick, section “E” of the CLDR Release BRS

D10

Remove the yellow from UTS#35 draft, and clean up everything for posting. Run W3C validations and link checks on all parts. Make sure links to images are correct before posting, and create a symlink to the image directory within the reports/tr35/tr35NN directory. Make sure that the revision is headed with “updated for” rather than “proposed update for”. Double check the text and links for the DTD and versions in the header. Check into SVN. Then post as final UTS #35 on unicode site. Double-check the DTD and header pointers again when finished.

E02

Creating Artifacts (Example: for release-40)

E03

Create a new directory, e.g. http://unicode.org/Public/cldr39/ and populate with the zip files from [Steven/Peter or whoever is making them for the release]. Double check filenames core.zip, tools.zip, keyboards.zip. (Add json.zip and json_full.zip or other files, if they’ve been made.) For each of the zip files, create a symlink that is the versioned name of the file. E.g. make cldr-tools-30.0.3.zip a symbolic link to tools.zip. Etc. Example:

# ln -s cldr-common-38.0.zip core.zip

# ln -s cldr-keyboards-38.0.zip keyboards.zip

which results in “ls -la” showing them like this:

core.zip -> cldr-common-38.0.zip

keyboards.zip -> cldr-keyboards-38.0.zip

NOTE: This step should be updated again when we know which files precisely are supposed to be in the relase going forward.

E04

Update link to “latest” by modifying /home/httpd/htdocs/.htaccess to change the redirect of “/Public/cldr/latest” and “/Public/cldr/latest/”. Two lines near the top of the file. Just update the number at the end of each.

E05

Change the chart redirects to point to the new versions. For testing, change the links on the page to the right to the new version, eg /22.1/ => /23/. Then spot check. Make the beta-charts links point to ‘not found’ page (until we regenerate beta-charts). See the “RewriteRule” section in /etc/apache2/httpd-rewrite.conf where it points cldr/charts to the “latest” and “dev” release explicitly (around line 39ff of the special conf file). There are 2 redirects, one for dev and one for the new version that’s being released. (Currently near lines 54 and 59 of the file.) See also the “stable links info” on Sites: http://cldr.unicode.org/stable-links-info. This must be updated and the server gracefully restarted. (Command “apachectl graceful” works.)

Bug-How-To-Links:

https://sites.google.com/site/cldr/development/cldr-big-red-switch/test-chart-links (Copy out the text of the test links on that page; Change the {latest} to be current release, and any prev release numbers to the current one, the test them all.) See also info here and update DEV and LATEST as needed: https://sites.google.com/site/cldr/stable-links-info Verify links on https://sites.google.com/site/cldr/development/cldr-big-red-switch/test-chart-links work.

E06

Verify that the links on the release page (e.g. http://sites.google.com/site/cldr/index/downloads/cldr-28 ) are correct, and Draft is removed from the text. At this time also make sure the “news” item on http://cldr.unicode.org is updated, at the top of the page -- for all releases, alpha, beta, and final.

E07

Modify http://sites.google.com/site/cldr/index/downloads so that it includes a new row on the top (Latest:), with the information from the current release (eg http://sites.google.com/site/cldr/index/downloads/cldr-27 ). Might be easiest to do in HTML mode. Most of the latest row should remain standard, but some of the targets of those anchors need to be updated for each release. Click through all and test them.

E08

Change the dtd redirection, in /home/httpd/htdocs/cldr/dtd/.htaccess so that https://www.unicode.org/cldr/dtd/(X+1)/ points to https://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/common/dtd/ http://www.unicode.org/cldr/dtd/X/ is new. Upload the tagged dtd files there. Edit /home/httpd/htdocs/cldr/dtd/.htaccess and bump the version number to “X+1”. To verify that these are properly accessible, type the new dtd (X+1) URL into a browser, and if you get to the head of CVS, it’s correct. (The tagged DTD files are in core.zip, in case they aren’t supplied separately; get them from the zip file under common/dtd directory.)

E09

Update https://sites.google.com/site/cldr/index/charts and other pages that refer to version files directly. List here: https://sites.google.com/site/cldr/index/downloads/dev [Not clear if there are other pages that should be included here??] Here is a list of cells/fields on the http://sites.google.com/site/cldr/index/downloads page that need to be checked and updated for reach release:

Bug-How-To-Links:

In the charts page, add a row to the top of the table for the new release.(Recently Peter has been doing the new rel and download pages.)

E13

Update the sidebar for the release, eg: CLDR 1.8 Schedule: 2009-NN

=>

Latest Release: CLDR 1.8

and gray out the schedule. NOTE: Only the “site owner” can change the sidebar. Go to “edit site layout” in the “More” pulldown, then click on the Milestones header to edit that section.

NEW: Go to the bottom of the cldr.unicode.org home page and find the table for “Regular Semi-Annual Schedule”. In HTML mode, copy which ever half of the table is for the upcoming release (spring or fall), and update the sidebar with that section of the table by pasting in the different HTML blob of the table.

E14

Create a new blog page from based on Google doc of announcement drafts; publish the blog. (Note: these days home site gets update automatically with “news” based on the blog.)Tweet a little announcement pointing to the blog as needed. (Note: Mark and others on the ed committee can update and edit the blog/twitter as l2doc@unicode.org.)

E15

As an announcement, send contents of http://sites.google.com/site/cldr/development/cldr-big-red-switch/draft-press to all the Unicode mailing lists -- Usually first make sure the list is up to date by logging in as root and running “make-announcement-list.sh”. Mark, Steven, Rick, and John are all able to send announcements to “announcements@unicode.org”. (NOTE: best to double-buffer and check the HTML before sending to the list; HTML pasted in from sites and other places often has quirks.)

Bug-How-To-Links:

Normal announcement mechanism is described in: http://www.unicode.org/~book/announce-brs.html (for Rick or others to follow)

E16

Verify that these are empty before trunk opens: http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/report/22 http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/report/51 http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/report/52 -- and then Notify cldr@unicode.org that the trunk is open: e.g., say “Now that CLDR X.Y has been released, the SVN trunk ( http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk ) is open for commits towards the next release.” Use a subject line something like: “CLDR X.Y - trunk now open”, where X.Y is the next release. If report 51 is not empty, verify that anything remaining is either the result of a misticketed item, or that any commits had net zero effect on trunk ( for example, a change that was later backed out ).

F02

Create a new stub release page for the next release by copying the previous page (…downloads/cldr-31 or whatever) and state that it’s a stub. Retain the top-level headers from the previous release page. Yellow some sections for the update.

Fix the links as followed (to Link Nonfinal). (When the release is done, fix to Link Final).

Note: replace 99 by target release number, 999 by target release number minus 1, and 88 by final tr35 revision.
Near the top, add this line:

This version is currently in development. See the latest release.

Update these two pages as required with the dev version pointer to the new page:

http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/latest

http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/beta

Also create the Data folder so that the link doesn’t fail, and have the charts made so that link doesn’t fail.

F04

Update all of the “CURRENT” reports in trac to point to the new current milestones. Make sure $user isn’t replaced by your name. The affected reports are (52, 61, 66, 76, 77, 80) and (62, 63).

ALPHA PAGE TABLE HEADING

When making an “alpha” release page, check the header info in the table. Before the release, some links should go to “dev” version rather than a non-existent final version.

Rel note = dev version

Data = no link

Charts = dev version

Spec = proposed

Delta = link to the query for milestone

SVN Tag = dev version

DTD delta = “trunk” version