Notarization testing worked fine. Uploaded notarized master branch installer "master.dmg" to bitbucket for testing on systems.

I can probably automate deployment of early release IGB using ansible on my local.

Delaying to improve integration with UCSC XML API by using UCSC JSON API for getting list of currently available genome names.

Created release branch release-9.1.8 and pushed to team repository.
Added new commit with version information.
Cherry-picked c7c3cde onto master branch & release-9.1.8 branch, required to avoid over-writing previous release's updates (XML) configuration file.
Built artifacts for 9.1.8 release.
Ran release-to-nexus.bioviz.org pipeline. However, based on the bitbucket pipelines logging, it looks like it downloaded and then re-uploaded existing artifacts.
Checked: https://nexus.bioviz.org/repository/maven-releases/org/lorainelab/igb/externalView/9.1.8/externalView-9.1.8.pom
This shows new gson dependency added in IGBF-2863 after the last time I ran this pipeline in Dec. 2020. So probably everything is OK.

Notarized IGB 9.1.8 dmg (MacOS) installer and uploaded to Bitbucket IGB repository Downloads.

Notarization commands:

xcrun altool --notarize-app --primary-bundle-id "2020-05-30-igb-9.1.8" --username XXX --password XXX --asc-provider XXX --file IGB-macos-9.1.8.dmg
ninfo=XXX  # value returned by previous command
xcrun altool --notarization-info $ninfo -u XXX -p XXX
xcrun stapler staple IGB-macos-9.1.8.dmg

When I did the 9.1.6 release I forgot to update the master branch with new commits to the bitbucket pipelines configuration script which prevent over-writing of previous release's artifacts. I used git cherry-pick to add those old commits onto the master branch and also the new 9.1.8 release branch.

Updated bioviz web content. Ran playbooks.

Uploaded artifacts to sourceforge and set 9.1.8 version as the default downloads for platforms.

All that needs to be done now is to run the latest playbook with inventory:

[targets]
biovizmain ansible_host=35.153.214.38 domain=www.bioviz.org stack=Prod igb_branch=release-9.1.8 igb_version=9.1.8 igb_repository=https://bitbucket.org/lorainelab/integrated-genome-browser

To test:

On each platform:

1) Run the previous version of IGB (9.1.6)
2) Check that the installer package invites you to install the new version (9.1.8)
3) Check that the link displayed by the installer package actually works
4) Check that you are able to install and then run IGB 9.1.8 (follow the directions in the installer)

On Mac - the latest OS:

1) Check that your systems permits the software to be installed, without an error (testing notarization)

No issues on Mac 10.14.6

Tested on Windows. Installer package invites to install newer version 9.1.8. Please check the attached snapshot.

Successfully installed 9.1.8 on Windows.

Tested on Linux Ubuntu 20.04.1 . Installer package invites to install newer version 9.1.8. Please check the attached snapshot.

Successfully installed 9.1.8 on Linux Ubuntu.

Everything is working as expected on macOS Big Sur 11.4. A warning message is presented when a user attempts to run the installer, as shown here; pressing the "Open" button allows the user to install IGB.

Philip identified an issue with newer versions of Mac OS (Big Sur) where the highlighted tab appears oddly (IGBF-2872). This appears to only affect newer versions of Mac OS as it was not identified in Mojave (10.14.6).