Update to exception processing doc

RELEASE.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ## Overview 
 Release are created from the main repository branch using the version
 numbers, including an intermediate version suffix, 
-defined in `.make.versions`.
+defined in `.make.versions`
 The following points are important:
 
 1. In general, common a version number is used for all published pypi wheels and docker images.
@@ -20,29 +20,35 @@ allows intermediate publishing from the main branch using version X.Y.Z.dev\<N\>
 ## Cutting the release
 Creating the release involves
 
+1. Edit the `release-notes.md` to list major/minor changes
 1. Creating a release branch and tag and updating the main branch versions.
 1. Creating a github release from the release branch and tag.
 1. Building and publishing pypi library wheels and docker registry image.
 
 Each is discussed below.
 
-### Creating release branch and tag 
+### Editing release-notes.md 
+Make a dummy release on github (see below) to get a listing of all commits.
+Use this to come up with the items.
+Commit this to the main branch so it is ready for including in the release branch.
+
+### Creating release branch 
 The `scripts/release-branch.sh` is currently run manually to create the branch and tags as follows:
 
 1. Creates the `releases/vX.Y.Z` from the main branch where `X.Y.Z` are defined in .make.versions
 1. Creates the `vX.Y.Z` branch for PR'ing back into the `releases/vX.Y.Z` branch. 
 1. In the new `vX.Y.Z` branch 
     1. Nulls out the version suffix in the new branch's `.make.version` file. 
     1. Applies the unsuffixed versions to the artifacts published from the repo using `make set-versions`..
-    1. Commits and pushes branch and tag
+    1. Commits and pushes branch 
 1. Creates the `pending-version-change/vX.Y.Z` branch for PR'ing back into the main branch.
 1. In the `pending-version-change/vX.Y.Z` branch
     1. Increments the minor version (i.e. Z+1) and resets the suffix to `dev0` in `.make.versions`.
     1. Commits and pushes branch 
 
 To double-check the version that will be published from the release,
 ```
-git checkout releasing/vX.Y.Z 
+git checkout vX.Y.Z 
 make show-version
 ```
 This will print for example, 1.2.3. 
@@ -60,13 +66,15 @@ After running the script, you should
 
 ### Github release
 After running the `release-branch.sh` script, to create tag `vX.Y.Z` and branch `releases/vX.Y.Z`
+and PRing/merging `vX.Y.Z` into `releases/vX.Y.Z`.
 1. Go to the [releases page](https://github.com/IBM/data-prep-kit/releases). 
-2. Select `Draft a new release`
-3. Select `Choose a tag -> vX.Y.Z`
-4. Press `Generate release notes` 
-5. Add a title (e.g., Release X.Y.Z) 
-6. Add any additional relese notes.
-7. Press `Publish release`
+1. Select `Draft a new release`
+1. Select target branch `releases/vX.Y.Z`
+1. Select `Choose a tag`, type in vX.Y.Z, click `Create tag`
+1. Press `Generate release notes` 
+1. Add a title (e.g., Release X.Y.Z) 
+1. Add any additional relese notes.
+1. Press `Publish release`
 
 ### Publishing wheels and images
 After creating the release branch and tag using the `scripts/release-branch.sh` script:

release-notes.md

@@ -1,5 +1,36 @@
 # Data Prep Kit Release notes
 
+## Release 0.2.1 - 9/24/2024
+
+### General 
+1. Bug fixes across the repo
+1. Added AI Alliance RAG demo, tutorials and notebooks and tips for running on google colab
+1. Added new transforms and single package for transforms published to pypi
+1. Improved CI/CD with targeted workflow triggered on specific changes to specific modules
+1. New enhancements for cutting a release
+
+
+### data-prep-toolkit libraries (python, ray, spark) 
+
+1. Restructure the repository to distinguish/separate runtime libraries
+1. Split data-processing-lib/ray into python and ray
+1. Spark runtime
+1. Updated pyarrow version
+1. Define required transform() method as abstract to AbstractTableTransform
+1. Enables configuration of makefile to use src or pypi for data-prep-kit library dependencies 
+
+
+### KFP Workloads 
+
+1. Add a configurable timeout before destroying the deployed Ray cluster.
+
+### Transforms
+
+1. Added 7 new transdforms including: language identification, profiler, repo level ordering, doc quality, pdf2parquet, HTML2Parquet and PII Transform
+1. Added ededup python implementation and incremental ededup 
+1. Added fuzzy floating point comparison
+
+
 ## Release 0.2.0 - 6/27/2024
 
 ### General