Force pushed some more changelog notes re updating dependencies we control.

Note for Optech: should be published after this is merged and the crate is out. Should be soon.

@tcharding would you be willing to open a PR to do the actual update?

Oh, never mind, this is the PR -- except we just need a PR to update the rust-secp dep. I can do that.

Done: #1714

Are we happy with the taproot API improvements under the "API improvements" header and not in their own section? (Mentioning because we just added a separate taproot section to the blog post.)

@apoelstra I've set the date to Sunday the 19th March so if we release in the next day or two the "set date" checkbox in PR description can be considered done.

Are we happy with the taproot API improvements under the "API improvements" header and not in their own section? (Mentioning because we just added a separate taproot section to the blog post.)

If you mean in changelog then yes, they don't have to be the same.

Force push is just the mentions of ScriptBuf.

Rebased on master and added initial link to the new website. Used direct link to blogpost. We have a chicken and egg problem with the blog post and changelog now, we (I) want to add links to online docs to the blog post which implies code released (changelog notes released) which link to the blogpost.

IMO start by releasing blog first because less people will accidentally stumble upon it.

Aight, I rekon we are good to pull the trigger then - either @apoelstra to do it (blogpost and crate release) or I can be online to do it with you Andrew at normal time. I'm getting pretty excited about this release FTR.

Bother, too excited it would seem. We still need to merge #1714 and then rebase this one.

@tcharding #1714 is merged. We are good to go here.

Updated the release date in changelog to 21st

Needs an ack from you @Kixunil!

Perhaps give @sanket1729 a chance to ack as well?

reack please @sanket1729 and @Kixunil if you are still about - I rekon we can still get this out today!

Wo ho ho, getting close ...

Just started merge process. should be less than 30 minutes.

Can you merge the blog post PR now then? I can deploy if you like (if I do it then I can fix it if its not working :)

In order for the blog post to be live when we release I'm going to deploy it now.

EDIT: Oh I misread "merge process" as "release process", is there another step before you publish to crates.io? I have not deployed the site yet.

@tcharding yes, the remaining thing to do is merge this PR :). But I have to run my CI job on the merge commit before I can do that.

Let's go!!!

@sanket1729 sorry, we have one more thing to fix :) the readme key in Cargo.toml needs us to add a ../ because we moved the workspace.

Tobin will PR, then if we can quickl ACK (I won't bother doing any tests) we should be able to push in a few minutes.

#1723

And we're live!

Is the website also up? I would like tweet about the release.

I've borked the website, trying to fix now ...

Wohoo. Seems to be up now https://rust-bitcoin.github.io/blog/release-0.30.0/

Looks like a 404 to me

yeah I have no idea why. I've hard reset to same commit as was up before and settings in https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin.github.io/settings/pages look correct

Looks like its stuck in githubs github pages build system

Its through their build system now but 404 still

It was up the whole time, cache on my machine was returning the 404

face palm, still 404 - this is working: https://rust-bitcoin.github.io/index.html

We are live yo! https://rust-bitcoin.org/blog