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• request Bugzilla version update
• ensure changes.xml is up to date
• update JMeterVersion.java

• Wiki Markup
  build site documents \[docs-site\] and javadoc \[docs-api\] and update in SVN

• build and test
• test
  • GUI and non-GUI using host with graphic capability
  • non-GUI only using host with no graphic capability
    

Generate Release

• tag all the files with the new version tag
• extract files from SVN using the tag into a new directory tree
• create distribution files:
  • ant distribution -Djmeter.version=m.n -Duser.name=user-AT-apache.org
  • sign distribution files (gpg -ba file)
    

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