Post release fixes

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/release.md

@@ -6,31 +6,39 @@ title: "Release MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH"
 
 - [ ] Bump the bdk-ffi submodule to the release tag in bdk-ffi.
 - [ ] Delete the `dist`, `build`, and `bdkpython.egg-info` and rust `target` directories to make sure you are building the library from scratch without any caches.
-- [ ] Start the virtual environment.
 - [ ] Build the library.
 
 ```shell
 just clean
-source .localpythonenv/bin/activate
-pip install --requirement requirements.txt
 bash ./scripts/generate-macos-arm64.sh # run the script for your particular platform
 just build
 ```
 
 - [ ] Run the tests and adjust if necessary
 
 ```shell
-pip3 install ./dist/bdkpython-<yourversion>-py3-none-any.whl --force-reinstall
-python -m unittest --verbose
+just install
+just test
 ```
 
 - [ ] Update the readme if necessary
 - [ ] Create a new branch off of `master` called `release/<feature version>`, e.g. `release/0.31`
 - [ ] Update library version from `.dev` version to release version
-- [ ] Create the tag for the release and make sure to add a link to the bdk-ffi changelog to the tag. Push the tag to GitHub.
+- [ ] Create the tag for the release and make sure to add a link to the bdk-ffi changelog to the tag. See below for the template of the message we use for tags in this repository.
 
 ```shell
 git tag v0.6.0 --sign --edit
+```
+
+```md
+Release 2.3.1
+
+See https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi/releases/tag/v2.3.1 and https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi/releases/tag/v2.3.0 as well as our changelog at https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk-ffi/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md for release details.
+```
+
+- [ ] Push the tag to GitHub, and let the CI run all tests one more time.
+
+```shell
 git push upstream v0.6.0
 ```
 

README.md

@@ -21,13 +21,9 @@ This repository uses the bdk-ffi repository as a git submodule. Here are useful
 
 ```sh
 uv sync
-
 bash scripts/generate-macos-arm64.sh
-
 uv build --wheel -v
-
 uv pip install ./dist/bdkpython-<yourversion>.whl --force-reinstall
-
 uv run python -m unittest --verbose
 ```
 
@@ -38,6 +34,5 @@ uv run python -m unittest --verbose
 
 ```sh
 uv run python ./docs/generate_docs.py
-
 uv run python -m sphinx -b html -W --keep-going -v docs/source docs/_build/html
 ```

justfile

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ build:
 [group("Build")]
 [doc("Install the wheel locally (force reinstall).")]
 install:
-  uv venv
   uv pip install dist/bdkpython-*.whl --force-reinstall
 
 [group("Build")]

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "bdkpython"
-version = "2.1.0.dev0"
+version = "2.4.0.dev0"
 description = "The Python language bindings for the Bitcoin Development Kit"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"