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The release process is in place to help follow the ASF guidelines for release management.
Branches
All public releases are cut from a release branch, the current release branch is 2.0.x, and all releases have even version numbering. Development (non-public) releases are cut from the trunk, and have odd version numbering.
Tags
For every released artifact, a tag should be created off the appropriate release branch. These tags should be named exactly the same as the version number released, e.g. "2.0.0-alpha".
Creating a release
After updating the versioning in configure.ac:
% autoreconf -i % ./configure % gmake dist