Page History

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Check out the Apache Roller source code from the appropriate branch.  Within the pom files, update the Roller version the new number to what you will be releasing (for example, 5.0.4-SNAPSHOT to 5.0.4).  Update the version within the three sign*.sh files to that version as well.

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   /home/<username>/public_html/rc1

5. Check In Version changes

Do an SVN commit of the changes you did in Step #1.  Then, add a release candidate tag using the svn copy command, for example:

svn copy https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/roller/branches/roller_5.0  https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/roller/tags/roller_5.0.4-rc1

5. Vote on release

Call for a release vote and once the release is approved, move to the next step.

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Update the website files in SVN and update to publish.

8. Announce the release, update branch version

Make the announcement on the mailing list and other places, and update the branch to the next snapshot version (e.g., 5.0.4 to 5.0.5-SNAPSHOT).