This page is a brain dump of the various items needed for a release. It needs some work...

Preparation

• request Bugzilla version update (on INFRA or if you are JMeter committer, ask for sufficient Bugzilla karma to do this yourself)
• ensure changes.xml is up to date
• update JMeterVersion.java (version and year), build.xml (version and docversion) and NOTICE (year)
• update xdocs/download_jmeter.xml to the new version
• build site documents, having first cleaned out existing files (so obsolete files will be removed):

  • Wiki Markup
    \[clean-docs\] then \[docs-site\]

• update docs tree in SVN
• build code
• test
  • GUI and non-GUI using host with graphic capability
  • non-GUI only using host with no graphic capability
  • ideally test on minimum supported Java and latest Java - especially for GUI
    

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