Steps for an official release
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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)
- Write and updated dependencies list for installations that can't use the installers
