Release 0.28.0-alpha.4

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Next steps

• Test the release

• For alpha releases:

  • Should the GH release be published for this alpha? Make a call (give extra love to alphas deployed to Rerun Cloud or when external testing is required).
    • If yes:
      • Edit and publish the GitHub release
      • Stretch goal: generate a raw changelog and add it to the GH release with this disclaimer:
        DISCLAIMER: This is an unreviewed, automatically generated changelog. We only provide fully reviewed changelogs for final releases.
    • If no:
      • Delete the GH release draft
  • Merge or close the release PR
    • IFF the release job succeeds and the link checker is happy, you may merge the PR.
    • Otherwise, close the PR without merging. Cherrypick any interesting commit to main, but not the version bump one (it would introduce bad links).

• For non-alpha releases:

  • For any added commits, run the release workflow in 'rc' mode again
  • After testing, ensure that this PR is mergeable to main, then run the release workflow in 'release' mode
  • Once the final release workflow finishes it will create a GitHub release for you. Then:
    • Sanity check the build artifacts:
      • pip install: does it install and run?
      • cargo install of cli tool: does it install and run?
      • C++ SDK zip: does it contain rerun_c for all platforms?
    • Edit and publish the GitHub release:
      • Do NOT create a GitHub release draft yourself! Let the release job do it.
      • Populate the release with the changelog and a nice header video/picture
      • Make sure Set as latest release is checked
      • Click Publish release
      • Once published, the release assets will sync to it automatically.
    • Update the google colab notebooks to install this version and re-execute the notebook.
    • Release a new version of gradio (@oxkitsune, @jprochazk)
    • Merge the Release PR
    • (A few hours later) Check on the conda feedstock PR (ping Antoine, Nick and/or Jeremy in necessary)

• Tests

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • MacOS

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Result	Commit	Link
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Result	Commit	Link	Manifest
✅	0720ac3	https://rerun.io/viewer/pr/12264	+nightly +main

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