Prerequisites

Before entering into this process you need to ensure you will be able to cryptographically sign the final result in such a way that others can validate the signature. This can be a confusing process. Here are links to three documents that should help.

• http://www.apache.org/dev/openpgp.html

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• http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html
• http://httpd.apache.org/dev/verification.html

Prepare

In preparation for each release there are a number of sub-steps required to ensure that that the project's repository is in a suitable state for branching.

Keys

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Update version numbers

(from X.Y.Z-SNAPSHOT to X.Y.Z)

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