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For the last two tasks, it's better to give the mirrors some time to distribute the uploaded artifacts (one day should be fine). This ensures that once the website (news and download page) is updated, people can actually download the artifacts.

Update JIRA

Go to Admin section on the FELIX JIRA and mark the Y.Z version as released - create version Y.Z+1, if that hasn't already been done.

Create an Announcement

To: "Felix Developers List" <dev@felix.apache.org>
Subject: [ANN] Felix XXX version Y.Z Released

The Felix team is pleased to announce the release of Felix XXX version Y.Z

<<insert short description of the sub-project>>

  http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-XXX.html

This release is available from http://felix.apache.org/site/downloads.cgi and Maven:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.apache.felix.XXX</artifactId>
    <version>Y.Z</version>
  </dependency>

Release Notes:

<<insert release notes in text format from JIRA>>

Enjoy!

-The Felix team

Remember to forward this announcement to users@felix.apache.org - try not to cross-post (CC:) announcements to both user and dev lists.

Remind Richard about this release when he writes the next board report

Appendix A: create and add your key to http://www.apache.org/dist/felix/KEYS

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