Release Deledda - 8.1.0

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JIRA: Deledda - 8.1.0

Prerequisites

• Create stable branch
  • Create a stable-8.1 branch based on current master
• Finish release candidate phase
  • Branch off stable-8.1 branch
  • Move all change log items from unreleased to 8.1.0-rc.1_2026-05-22
  • Bump ocis version in ocis-pkg/version/version.go
  • Bump ocis version in sonar-project.properties
  • Run a translation sync make l10n-pull
  • Create PR with [full-ci][k6-test] against stable-8.1
  • Get PR approved. DO NOT MERGE YET
  • Wait for pipeline to be green
  • Create tag: git tag -s v8.1.0-rc.1 -m "Release 8.1.0-rc.1"
  • Push tag: git push origin v8.1.0-rc.1
  • Watch the PR to see pipeline succeed (can be restarted)
  • Merge PR
  • Sync with DevOps and Product - repeat process with rc.2, rc.3,... until all issues are fixed
• Create release branch for 8.1.0
  • Branch off stable-8.1 branch
  • Move all change log items from 8.1.0-rc.* to 8.1.0_2026-05-22
  • Bump ocis version in ocis-pkg/version/version.go
  • Bump ocis version in sonar-project.properties
  • For new major versions: Add it to PRODUCTION_RELEASE_TAGS envvar in .drone.star file
  • Adjust .drone.star file to write to docs-stable-8.1
    • Find target_branch value in the docs section and change it to docs-stable-8.1
    • Example: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/blame/56f7645f0b11c9112e15ce46f6effd2fea01d6be/.drone.star#L2249
    • Note: docs-stable-8.1 is created later (see below)
  • Run a translation sync make l10n-pull
  • Create PR with [full-ci][k6-test] against stable-8.1
  • Get PR approved. DO NOT MERGE YET
  • Wait for pipeline to be green
• Get release sign-off (Confluence)
  • Rename release in Jira to Deledda - 8.1.0
  • Find someone who wants the release more desperately than you and tell that person to do it OR
  • Get appropriate people to sign release sign-off document (not recommended)
• Release 8.1.0 ocis version
  • Create tag: git tag -s v8.1.0 -m "Release 8.1.0"
  • Push tag: git push origin v8.1.0
  • Watch the PR to see pipeline succeed (can be restarted)
  • Merge PR
  • Announce release in teams channel oCIS
• Create other stable branches, cronjobs and clean up
  • Backport release to master branch
    • Fix merge conflicts
    • Keep reva version from master branch
    • Keep web version from master branch
    • Add +dev to project version in ocis-pkg/version/version.go
    • Add +dev to project version in sonar-project.properties
    • Merge branch
  • Create a docs-stable branch
    • Create orphan branch git checkout --orphan docs-stable-8.1
    • Initial commit: git commit --allow-empty -m "initial commit"
    • Push git push
  • Add stable-8.1 to the nightly cron jobs in drone (Settings -> Cron Jobs)
  • For the docs-stable-8.1 branch to be ready the nightly cronjob needs to run. If needed this can be manually started with drone cron exec owncloud/ocis nightly-9-0
• Set the release to released in Jira (right sidebar)

QA Phase

• QA: Confirmatory testing (See changelogs)
  • ocis → [QA] Confirmatory testing for Deledda - 8.1.0 @PrajwolAmatya @ishabaral
  • web → [QA] Confirmatory testing for Web 12.3.0 - Web 12.4.0 @PrajwolAmatya
• [QA] Compatibility testing between Curie - 8.0.4 and Deledda - 8.1.0 @kavitagautam
• [QA] Performance testing (POSTPONED - no running load test servers. Waiting for the DevOps team to prepare new load test servers)
  • [[k6-load-test] Performance testing for Deledda - 8.1.0]]([k6-load-test] Performance testing for Deledda - 8.1.0 #12365) -> k6_pipeline should be green!
  • [k6-load-test] Specific load performance tests
• [QA] E2E with different deployment
• QA: smoke testing
  • [QA] Smoke testing for Deledda - 8.1.0 @anon-pradip @Asmitapaudel
  • [QA] Text editor tests for Deledda - 8.1.0 @nirajacharya2
  • [QA] Web office test for Deledda - 8.1.0 @Salipa-Gurung
• [QA] Check translations in German language for Deledda - 8.1.0 @Salipa-Gurung

Bug Reports - Release Candidate 1 - 8.1.0-rc.1

• [OCISDEV-941] Password Protected Folder Close folder button is hard to see web#13817
• [OCISDEV-916] Theme in vault only enables after page reload web#13818
• [OCISDEV-911] Vault mode: Public link option exits despite it being not allowed web#13823
• [OCISDEV-947] File list overlaps preview image for certain image dimensions/resolutions web#13822
• [OCISDEV-967] Vault Mode: User doesn't get notification in vault mode when someone shares a resource from vault web#13839

Postponed issues

TO BE FILLED