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• A git client installed and on your path
• Apache Ant installed and on your path (see BUILDING.txt in the root of the code repository for version requirements)
• The latest release of the minimum Java version that the Tomcat version runs on installed and on your path
• Operating system
  • Windows just works
  • Linux also requires wine (standard package manager version should be fine)
  • MacOS also requires wine (see below
  Windows OS (you can do it on Linux but it involves a lot more hassle
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• GnuPG installed
• A public key that is part of the Apache web of trust
• A reasonable internet connection (you will need to upload ~100MB)

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This command will run for a while, and ask you repeatedly if it's okay to run "chocolateyInstall.ps1", which you will have to do to proceed. Once the above command has completed, you have all the software prerequisites installed and on your PATH. Well, once you quick PowerShell and launch a new CMD.EXE or PowerShell window, of course

wine on MacOS

This is for 11.x.x (Big Sur)

You will need to install homebrew if you haven't already.

Then install wine-crossover from https://github.com/Gcenx/homebrew-wine

Configure a 32-bit wine environment using:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg

Then before you start the release ensure the following environment variables are set:

export WINEARCH=win32
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32

Preliminary checks

• Check that the version numbers have been incremented after the previous release, as expected. (e.g. https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/cec14f9c33af9da271c9681bf6b343c61b6d055a)
• Check that the changelog file mentions your login name as release manager for this release (e.g. "Tomcat 9.0.94 (markt)").
• Check whether the KEYS file differs from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tomcat/tomcat-9/KEYS one. The latter one will be replaced after you do a release. Check that the KEYS file contains your public key.
• Check that the full build still works (ant release, preferably). Check that Buildbot builds (https://tomcat.apache.org/ci.html#Buildbot) are green.

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