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1. Create a branch for the release series:

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   svn copy https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk \ https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/branches/branch-X.Y -m "Branching for X.Y releases"

2. Increment the value of the version property the build.properties file, hcatalog/build.properties and hcat pom.xml files (find hcatalog/ -name pom.xml), on trunk . For example, if the current value is 0.7.0-SNAPSHOT, the new value should be 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT. Please note that the SNAPSHOT suffix is required in order to indicate that this is an unreleased development branch.
3. Verify that the build is working with changes
4. Commit these changes to trunk.

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   svn commit -m "Preparing for X.Y+1.0 development"

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1. Check out the release branch with:

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

2. Update the version property value in the build.properties file, hcatalog/build.properties and hcat pom.xml files (find hcatalog/ -name pom.xml). You should remove the SNAPSHOT suffix and set version equal to hive-X.Y.Z where Z is the point release number in this release series (0 for the first one, in which case this step is a no-op since you already did this above when creating the branch).
3. Verify that the build is working with changes
4. Commit these changes.

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

5. If not already done, merge desired patches from trunk into the branch and commit these changes. We don't currently use svn merge for this, but if we did, the script would be

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   cd branch-X.Y svn merge -rR1:R2 ../trunk . svn commit -m "Merge -r R1:R2 from trunk to X.Y branch. Fixes: HIVE-A, HIVE-B."

6. You probably also want to commit a patch (on both trunk and branch) which updates README.txt to bring it up to date (at a minimum, search+replacing references to the version number). Also check NOTICE to see if anything needs to be updated for recent library dependency changes or additions.
   1. Select all of the JIRA's for the current release that aren't FIXED and do bulk update to clear the 'Fixed Version' field.
   2. Likewise, use JIRA's Release Notes link to generate content for the RELEASE_NOTES.txt file. Be sure to select 'Text' format. (It's OK to do this with a direct commit rather than a patch.)
7. Tag the release candidate (R is the release candidate number, and also starts from 0):

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

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