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1. Check out the branch with:

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   svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/branches/branch-X.Y

2. Run rat report and make sure that all files that can have apache license agreement.

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   ant releaseaudit

3. For patches, update CHANGES.txt to include the release version and date and update site.xml with the new version. See #2 and #3 from Create Release Branch section.
4. Update RELEASE_NOTES.txt for this release:
   1. Make sure to change all of the version number references to the current version number.
   2. Note highlights for this release. CHANGES.txt is a great place to find these.
   3. Note incompatibilities for this release. These should be listed under INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES in CHANGES.txt.
5. Update the version number in build.xml to be X.Y.N-SNAPSHOT, where N is one greater than the release being made.
6. Commit these changes:

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   svn commit -m "Preparing for release X.Y.Z"

7. Tag the release candidate:

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   svn copy https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/branches/branch-X.Y \ https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pig/tags/release-X.Y.Z-rcR -m "Pig X.Y.Z-rcR release."

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