Release engineering notes

Required manual steps

Pre-mkrel

• check copyright years in project-wide stuff
• make sure you're in a build tree that's not the source tree and configured using --enable-maintainer-mode
• make depend and commit if changed
• regenerate manpages: (cd man && make man) and commit if changed
• regenerate localization template (cd po && make update-po) and commit if changed
• manually edit patchlevel.h to reflect the new release
• manually update README
  • dates
  • changes
  • contributors
• make additional manpage and update-po commits with updated patchlevel.h
• squash preceding commits so all versioning-related commits are a single commit (non-versioning changes should remain separate commits)

Post-mkrel

• PGP sign
• generate branded HTML docs
• edit web pages
• send announcement