About itk 5.4.0

[chenrui333]

Release checklist and status:

• Check dashboard and CI
• Tag the ITK repository
• Bump ITK's version
• Update release branches
• Update .zenodo.json
• Bump the ITKPythonPackage version
• Bump the ITKSoftwareGuide version
• Bump ITKSphinxExamples version: WIP: ENH: Bump ITK to 5.4.0 release ITKSphinxExamples#424 punting
• Generate InsightToolkit and InsightData tarballs
• Archive testing data
• Write release notes
• Tarballs archived on ITKReleases NumFOCUS GDrive
• Publish Doxygen HTML
• Generate Python packages and ITKPythonBuilds
• Upload Python packages to PyPI
• conda-forge libitk package updated
• Update downloads page
• Post on Discourse
• Post on Open Collective
• Post on Image.sc
• Post on Wordpress for itk.org entry

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👋 looks like 5.4.0 did not get marked as latest release? Create this issue to raise some awareness. Thanks!

cc @phcerdan

[thewtex]

Hello, we are finalizing the release artifacts and the release announcement, and a GitHub Release will be minted after all these are in place. Thanks for helping with the Homebrew package 🙏

[opoplawski]

Any progress here?

[thewtex]

I am fixing the documentation, which is a critical piece.

[boegel]

What's the holdup here, 5.4.0 was tagged in May 2024, yet the release process hasn't been completed yet?

This is quite confusing...

[thewtex]

Release finalization was held up when a documentation dependency broke. This is not the first time it has happened. And it is more severe than previous times. And I spent significant time looking into it.

The dependency is being removed, so it does not cause these issues in the future.

[thewtex]

@dzenanz could a Wordpress blog post please be created with the ITK tag? 🙏

Contents: https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/blob/master/Documentation/docs/releases/5.4.0.md

[dzenanz]

Wordpress blog post

Done - link. It is also linked at the bottom of itk.org landing page.

[thewtex]

Thank you @dzenanz !