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Prerequisites

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

Update CHANGES

Update CHANGES.txt with release date (Release X.Y - MM/dd/yyyy) and (if needed) add additional changelog entries

Update documentation

Commit updates

Build and Test

Make a clean checkout

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tika/trunk^{Image Removed}

Build it.

Run unit tests

Do basic test to see if release looks ok - e.g. install it and run Tika command line on a sample document

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Perform a clean clone

git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-knox.git knox
cd knox
ant -release

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Perform a full build including tests

gitcd pull
ant release
knox-release
mvn clean package

Sanity testing

Do some basic manual testing to see if release looks ok. For example do and install and run through a few of the samples.

Branch

Create a branch for release maintenance

Sign

ant sign

Stage - Step-By-Step Guide to Mirroring Releases.

e.g., gpg --armor --output tika-X.Y.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig tika-X.Y.tar.gz \
md5sum tika-X.Y.tar.gz > tika-X.Y.tar.gz.md5

Vote

13. Release Review and Vote: Use the following email as a template for a real email sent to the private@lucene.apache.org and the tika-dev@lucene.apache.org lists, calling for a vote on the release candidate (posted on a publicly accessible website):

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