Steps for an official release

1. Create a rel-??? branch from master in the git repo.

2. Release an online development demo that uses the rel-??? branch and updates daily.

3. Publish installation, upgrade, and downloading instructions.

• Also provide links for downloading rel-??? packages to allow testing of installation and upgrading by testers.

3. Finalize the translations in the rel-??? branch.

4. Bug fix and finalize the rel-??? branch.

5. Create a list of new features in the rel-??? branch (since the last official release).

6. Release rel-??? branch by tagging in git repo with v?_?_?.

• Things to remember before tagging the release.

• Remove dev (make it blank) from the version.php file
• Ensure the debug language global in locale in library/globals.inc.php is defaulted to 0

• Build the zip and tar.gz packages from v_?_?_? and release packages on sourceforge.

7. Build and release the Ubuntu package.

• Ensure new dependencies are added (such as php5-mcrypt)

8. Build and release the Appliance.

9. Build and release the Windows XAMPP package.