This tool automates some aspects of releasing a new version of Stack. It currently handles some tasks that need to be performed on each platform: building the release, running integration tests, and other pre-release checks.

See Checklist of additional manual release steps.

These must be installed in the PATH to use the release tool:

• stack
• git (for Windows, msysgit is recommended).

Usage: stack etc/scripts/release.hs [OPTIONS] TARGET

The tool must be run in the root of the working tree.

The release tool is shake-based, so all standard shake options apply. In addition, the following options are accepted:

• --allow-dirty: by default, the check rule aborts if the working tree is dirty, but this will allow it to continue. uploaded to.

• release: check and build.
• check: run pre-release checks.
• build: build and sign the binary distribution.
• clean: delete the build artifacts.