Releasing a new version of the plugin

Update CHANGELOG.adoc with the latest changes for the release. The first section heading after the heading “Release Notes” will be the version number of the release.

Push all changes to GitHub and wait for the build-process to complete.
GitHub actions create a draft release. The plugin is attached as asciidoctor-intellij-plugin-xx.xx.xx.zip. This file can be downloaded and installed manually as described in Installing a preview release.

Edit the draft release.

The tag version must not be changed, as it is already baked into the change log.

Add a meaningful headline for the release.

If there are any typos in the long description for the release, fix them in the changelog and wait for the build to update the draft release.

The long description supports Markdown, while the changelog is written in AsciiDoc. The syntax might need to be changed to make the content appear correctly in Markdown.

Check the box “This is a pre-release”.

Publish the draft release in the GitHub Web UI+ The plugin will be available from the EAP (early access program) repository. See Using the Early Access repository of the AsciiDoc plugin for more information.

Go to GitHub releases for this plugin

Edit the pre-release and uncheck the checkbox “This is a pre-release”.
A GitHub action will then publish the release. Publishing of the stable version can start while the GitHub action publishing the preview version is still running.

Due to caching in the JetBrains marketplace and the IDE, it might take some time (minutes to hours) for the IDE to pick up the new version.