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• request Bugzilla version update
• ensure changes.xml is up to date
• update JMeterVersion.java
• build documents, having first cleaned out existing files (so obsolete files will be removed):

  • Wiki Markup

  build site documents

  • \[clean-docs\] then \[docs-site\]

  and javadoc
  • Wiki Markup
    \[clean-apidocs\] then \[docs-api\]

  and update in
• update docs tree in SVN
• build code
• test
  • GUI and non-GUI using host with graphic capability
  • non-GUI only using host with no graphic capability
  • ideally test on Java 1.4 and latest Java - especially for GUI
    

Generate Release

• tag all the files with the new version tag
• extract files from SVN using the tag into a new directory tree
• create distribution files:
  • ant distribution -Djmeter.version=m.n -Duser.name=user-AT-apache.org
  • sign distribution files (gpg -ba file)
    

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