snapshot of https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git @ 48c69911c7dd4e03b20552eb3bd77ad8151c1357 (2026-09-15)

tools/build-release-tarball

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -eu
+
+# shellcheck source=lib/git-tools.bash
+. "$(dirname "$0")"/lib/git-tools.bash
+
+usage() {
+    echo "Usage: $0 <ZULIP_VERSION>" >&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+args="$(getopt -o '' -l 'help' -n "$0" -- "$@")"
+eval "set -- $args"
+
+while true; do
+    case "$1" in
+        --)
+            shift
+            break
+            ;;
+        *) usage ;;
+    esac
+done
+
+if [ -z "${1:-}" ]; then
+    usage
+fi
+
+version="$1"
+prefix="zulip-server-$version"
+
+require_clean_work_tree 'build a release tarball'
+
+set -x
+GITID=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+
+umask 022
+
+OUTPUT_DIR=${OUTPUT_DIR:-$(mktemp -d)}
+TARBALL=$OUTPUT_DIR/$prefix.tar
+BASEDIR=$(pwd)
+
+git archive -o "$TARBALL" "--prefix=$prefix/" HEAD
+
+cd "$OUTPUT_DIR"
+tar -xf "$TARBALL"
+while read -r i; do
+    rm -r --interactive=never "${OUTPUT_DIR:?}/$prefix/$i"
+done <"$OUTPUT_DIR/$prefix/tools/release-tarball-exclude.txt"
+tar -cf "$TARBALL" "$prefix"
+rm -rf "$prefix"
+
+if tar -tf "$TARBALL" | grep -q -e ^zerver/tests; then
+    set +x
+    echo "BUG: Excluded files remain in tarball!"
+    exit 1
+fi
+cd "$BASEDIR"
+
+# Check out a temporary full copy of the index to generate static files
+git checkout-index -f -a --prefix "$OUTPUT_DIR/$prefix/"
+
+# Add the Git version information file
+if [[ "$version" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[0-9a-z]+)?$ ]]; then
+    # We override the merge-base, to avoid having to push the commits before building the tarball.
+    OVERRIDE_MERGE_BASE="$version" ./tools/cache-zulip-git-version
+    generated_version=$(head -n1 zulip-git-version)
+    if [ "$generated_version" != "$version" ]; then
+        echo "Version $version looks like a release version, but is not tagged yet!  Got $generated_version"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+else
+    ./tools/cache-zulip-git-version
+fi
+mv zulip-git-version "$OUTPUT_DIR/$prefix/"
+
+cd "$OUTPUT_DIR/$prefix"
+
+env -u PYTHONDEVMODE -u PYTHONWARNINGS uv sync --frozen --no-managed-python
+
+# create var/log directory in the new temporary checkout
+mkdir -p "var/log"
+
+# Some settings need to be updated for update-prod-static to work
+#
+# TODO: Would be much better to instead run the below tools with some
+# sort of environment hack so that we don't need to create this dummy
+# secrets file.
+cat >>zproject/prod_settings_template.py <<EOF
+DEBUG = False
+EOF
+cat >>zproject/dev-secrets.conf <<EOF
+[secrets]
+local_database_password = ''
+secret_key = 'not_used_here'
+shared_secret = 'not_used_here'
+avatar_salt = 'not_used_here'
+rabbitmq_password = 'not_used_here'
+initial_password_salt = 'not_used_here'
+EOF
+
+./tools/update-prod-static
+
+# We don't need duplicate copies of emoji with hashed paths, and they would break Markdown
+find prod-static/serve/generated/emoji/images/emoji/ -regex '.*\.[0-9a-f]+\.png' -delete
+
+echo "$GITID" >build_id
+echo "$version" >version
+
+cd "$OUTPUT_DIR"
+
+# We don't include starlight_help/dist_no_relative_links since that is only useful for zulip.com
+# and zulip.com doesn't use tarballs for deployment.
+tar --append -f "$TARBALL" "$prefix/prod-static" "$prefix/build_id" "$prefix/version" "$prefix/zulip-git-version" "$prefix/locale" "$prefix/staticfiles.json" "$prefix/webpack-stats-production.json" "$prefix/starlight_help/dist"
+
+rm -rf "$prefix"
+
+gzip "$TARBALL"
+
+set +x
+TARBALL="$TARBALL.gz"
+
+echo "Generated $TARBALL"