RELEASE.md

Release Checklist

The following are the steps to follow to make a new PySCIPOpt release. They should mostly be done in order.

• Check if scipoptsuite-deploy needs a new release, if a new SCIP version is released for example, or new dependencies (change symmetry dependency, add support for papilo/ parallelization.. etc). And Update release links in pyproject.toml
• Check if the table in the documentation needs to be updated.
• Update version number according to semantic versioning rules in src/pyscipopt/_version.py and setup.py
• Update CHANGELOG.md; Change the Unreleased to the new version number and add an empty unreleased section.
• Create a release candidate on test-pypi by running the workflow “Build wheels” in Actions->build wheels, with these parameters upload:true, test-pypi:true 
• If the pipeline passes, test the released pip package on test-pypi by running and checking that it works

pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ PySCIPOpt

• If it works, release on pypi.org with running the same workflow but with test-pypi:false.
• Then create a tag with the new version (from the master branch)

git tag vX.X.X
git push origin vX.X.X

• Then make a github release from this new tag.
• Update the documentation: from readthedocs.io -> Builds -> Build version (latest and stable)