moving all references to `release` branch

was previously `master`

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ possible.
 ## Our Development Process
 New versions are being developed in the "dev" branch,
 or in their own feature branch.
-When they are deemed ready for a release, they are merged into "master".
+When they are deemed ready for a release, they are merged into "release".
 
 As a consequences, all contributions must stage first through "dev"
 or their own feature branch.
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ CI tests run every time a pull request (PR) is created or updated. The exact tes
 that get run will depend on the destination branch you specify. Some tests take
 longer to run than others. Currently, our CI is set up to run a short
 series of tests when creating a PR to the dev branch and a longer series of tests
-when creating a PR to the master branch. You can look in the configuration files
+when creating a PR to the release branch. You can look in the configuration files
 of the respective CI platform for more information on what gets run when.
 
 Most people will just want to create a PR with the destination set to their local dev

README.md

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ Zstandard is dual-licensed under [BSD](LICENSE) and [GPLv2](COPYING).
 
 ## Contributing
 
-The "dev" branch is the one where all contributions are merged before reaching "master".
-If you plan to propose a patch, please commit into the "dev" branch, or its own feature branch.
-Direct commit to "master" are not permitted.
+The `dev` branch is the one where all contributions are merged before reaching `release`.
+If you plan to propose a patch, please commit into the `dev` branch, or its own feature branch.
+Direct commit to `release` are not permitted.
 For more information, please read [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).

TESTING.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ They consist of the following tests:
 
 Long Tests
 ----------
-Long tests run on all commits to `master` branch,
+Long tests run on all commits to `release` branch,
 and once a day on the current version of `dev` branch,
 on TravisCI.
 They consist of the following tests:

appveyor.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-# Following tests are run _only_ on master branch
-# To reproduce these tests, it's possible to push into a branch `appveyorTest`
-# or a branch `visual*`, they will intentionnally trigger `master` tests
+# Following tests are run _only_ on `release` branch
+# and on selected feature branch named `appveyorTest` or `visual*`
 
 -
   version: 1.0.{build}
   branches:
     only:
+    - release
     - master
-    - appveyorTest
+    - /appveyor*/
     - /visual*/
   environment:
     matrix:
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@
           cd programs\ && 7z a -tzip -mx9 zstd-win-binary-%PLATFORM%.zip zstd.exe &&
           appveyor PushArtifact zstd-win-binary-%PLATFORM%.zip &&
           cp zstd.exe ..\bin\zstd.exe &&
-          git clone --depth 1 --branch master https://github.com/facebook/zstd &&
+          git clone --depth 1 --branch release https://github.com/facebook/zstd &&
           cd zstd &&
-          git archive --format=tar master -o zstd-src.tar &&
+          git archive --format=tar release -o zstd-src.tar &&
           ..\zstd -19 zstd-src.tar &&
           appveyor PushArtifact zstd-src.tar.zst &&
           certUtil -hashfile zstd-src.tar.zst SHA256 > zstd-src.tar.zst.sha256.sig &&

contrib/seekable_format/zstd_seekable_compression_format.md

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ __`Frame_Size`__
 The total size of the skippable frame, not including the `Skippable_Magic_Number` or `Frame_Size`.
 This is for compatibility with [Zstandard skippable frames].
 
-[Zstandard skippable frames]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/master/doc/zstd_compression_format.md#skippable-frames
+[Zstandard skippable frames]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/release/doc/zstd_compression_format.md#skippable-frames
 
 #### `Seek_Table_Footer`
 The seek table footer format is as follows:

lib/compress/zstd_compress.c

@@ -3258,7 +3258,7 @@ size_t ZSTD_loadCEntropy(ZSTD_compressedBlockState_t* bs, void* workspace,
 
 /* Dictionary format :
  * See :
- * https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/master/doc/zstd_compression_format.md#dictionary-format
+ * https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/release/doc/zstd_compression_format.md#dictionary-format
  */
 /*! ZSTD_loadZstdDictionary() :
  * @return : dictID, or an error code

lib/decompress/zstd_decompress_block.c

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ size_t ZSTD_decodeLiteralsBlock(ZSTD_DCtx* dctx,
 
 /* Default FSE distribution tables.
  * These are pre-calculated FSE decoding tables using default distributions as defined in specification :
- * https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/master/doc/zstd_compression_format.md#default-distributions
+ * https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/release/doc/zstd_compression_format.md#default-distributions
  * They were generated programmatically with following method :
  * - start from default distributions, present in /lib/common/zstd_internal.h
  * - generate tables normally, using ZSTD_buildFSETable()

tests/README.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ desktop machine for every pull request that is made to the zstd repo but can als
 be run on any machine via the command line interface.
 
 There are three modes of usage for this script: fastmode will just run a minimal single
-build comparison (between facebook:dev and facebook:master), onetime will pull all the current
+build comparison (between facebook:dev and facebook:release), onetime will pull all the current
 pull requests from the zstd repo and compare facebook:dev to all of them once, continuous
 will continuously get pull requests from the zstd repo and run benchmarks against facebook:dev.
 

tests/automated_benchmarking.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import urllib.request
 
 GITHUB_API_PR_URL = "https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/zstd/pulls?state=open"
 GITHUB_URL_TEMPLATE = "https://github.com/{}/zstd"
-MASTER_BUILD = {"user": "facebook", "branch": "dev", "hash": None}
+RELEASE_BUILD = {"user": "facebook", "branch": "dev", "hash": None}
 
 # check to see if there are any new PRs every minute
 DEFAULT_MAX_API_CALL_FREQUENCY_SEC = 60
@@ -264,11 +264,11 @@ def main(filenames, levels, iterations, builds=None, emails=None, continuous=Fal
         for test_build in builds:
             if dictionary_filename == None:
                 regressions = get_regressions(
-                    MASTER_BUILD, test_build, iterations, filenames, levels
+                    RELEASE_BUILD, test_build, iterations, filenames, levels
                 )
             else:
                 regressions = get_regressions_dictionary(
-                    MASTER_BUILD, test_build, filenames, dictionary_filename, levels, iterations
+                    RELEASE_BUILD, test_build, filenames, dictionary_filename, levels, iterations
                 )
             body = "\n".join(regressions)
             if len(regressions) > 0:
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         builds = [{"user": None, "branch": "None", "hash": None}]
         main(filenames, levels, iterations, builds, frequency=frequency, dictionary_filename=dictionary_filename)
     elif mode == "fastmode":
-        builds = [{"user": "facebook", "branch": "master", "hash": None}]
+        builds = [{"user": "facebook", "branch": "release", "hash": None}]
         main(filenames, levels, iterations, builds, frequency=frequency, dictionary_filename=dictionary_filename)
     else:
         main(filenames, levels, iterations, None, emails, True, frequency=frequency, dictionary_filename=dictionary_filename)