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Revision 3 (Muntek Singh, 2010-06-29 17:54) → Revision 4/10 (Eric Davis, 2010-07-16 05:25)
h1. ReleaseProcess
This page described the process for packaging up a new Redmine release.
h2. Stable branches
# Checkout the stable branch (e.g. 0.9-stable)
# Check that all of this releases' issues have been merged into the stable branch. The Resolved status is used to mark which issues still *need to be merged*.
# Update the locales with @rake locales:update@
# Run the test suite to make sure there are no errors
# Checkout trunk again for these next steps
## Update the @doc/CHANGELOG@ and [[Changelog]] to list the changes
## Check that @doc/INSTALL@ and @doc/UPGRADING@ are correct
## Increment the version number, @lib/redmine/version.rb@
# Checkout the stable branch again and merge these updates to it
# Freeze the current Rails version
# Package up Redmine into a zip and tar.gz. *Make sure no private configuration files are included*
# Create MD5 checksum files for the zip and tar.gz files
# Tag the latest code in svn. e.g @svn cp svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/branches/0.9-stable svn+ssh://rubyforge.org/var/svn/redmine/tags/0.9.5@
# Upload the new release to "Rubyforge":http://rubyforge.org/projects/redmine/
# Update the [[Download]] and [[CheckingoutRedmine]] wiki pages
# Create a release announcement for:
## Rubyforge
## Redmine.org
## Redmineblog.com