Documentation release process

A new stable version of the Besu documentation is released when a new version of the Besu software is released.

To release the documentation, first run the following command to create a new doc version:

NOTE if it's the first time, you will need to run yarn  to install docusaurus

npm run docusaurus docs:version <VERSION-NUMBER>

Next, update the version.json  file to include the new version number.

Then, in docusaurus.config.js , under presets > classic > docs:

• Update the lastVersion  to the new version number.

• Under versions :
  • Add the new version and set its label to stable (<VERSION-NUMBER>) .
  • Update the previous version to remove the stable  label.

For example, when updating from version 23.4.1  to 23.4.2 , update the following section in docusaurus.config.js  from the following:

lastVersion: "23.4.1",
versions: {
  current: {
    label: "development",
    path: "development",
  },
  "23.4.1": {
    label: "stable (23.4.1)",
  },
  "23.4.0": {
    label: "23.4.0",
  },
},

To the following:

lastVersion: "23.4.2",
versions: {
  current: {
    label: "development",
    path: "development",
  },
  "23.4.2": {
    label: "stable (23.4.2)",
  },
  "23.4.1": {
    label: "23.4.1",
  },
  "23.4.0": {
    label: "23.4.0",
  },
},

commit your changes and push a PR to the besu-docs repo eg https://github.com/hyperledger/besu-docs/pull/1382 

When this PR is merged to main, it should trigger a github action which will update https://besu.hyperledger.org/

The final step is to draft and publish a new release including the changelog on github: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu-docs/releases