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Check that the version numbers have been incremented after the previous release, as expected. (e.g. https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/cec14f9c33af9da271c9681bf6b343c61b6d055a)
Check that the changelog file mentions your login name as release manager for this release (e.g. "Tomcat 9.0.94 (markt)").
Check whether the KEYS file differs from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tomcat/tomcat-9/KEYS one. The latter one will be replaced after you do a release. Check that the KEYS file contains your public key.
Check that the full build still works (ant release, preferably).

Create the tag

The aim is to create a copy of the current trunk but without the "-dev" appended to the end of the version number.

Perform an git clone and switch to the correct branch
- git clone https://github.com/apache/tomcat /c/releases/asf-tomcat or git clone -b 9.0.x git clone https://github.com/apache/tomcat /c/releases/asf-tomcat
- cd /c/releases/asf-tomcat
- git checkout 9.0.x
- git pull
Edit "build.properties.default" and change the lines after "# ----- Reproducible builds -----" to a new value.
Edit "build.properties.default" and change the line version.suffix=-dev to version.suffix=
- This can be done with sed -i.bak "s/^version.suffix=.*/version.suffix=/" build.properties.default
Edit "webapps/docs/changelog.xml" and remove rtext="in development" from the latest version
- Remember that notepad.exe will remove UTF-8 Byte-Order Marks (BOMs). Use write.exe or Notepad++ instead.

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