Checklist of things to do before a release

A simple reminder list:

• Verify that wiki-default contains all pages listed in TracProject/DefaultWikiPages
• Check all default wikipages for TracLinks to nonexistant pages/resources
• Check MANIFEST.in
• Check THANKS​
• Update ChangeLog and ChangeLog​
• Update TracInstall, INSTALL and UPGRADE
• Update version number (in trac/__init__.py​ and wiki-default/WikiStart)
• Create dist packages
  • Check out trunk (or the release branch) to a clean sandbox
  • Build source tarballs: python setup.py sdist —formats=gztar,zip
  • Build RPMs: python setup.py bdist_rpm
  • Build windows installer
    • remove wiki/checkwiki.py*
    • python setup.py bdist_wininst — .exe win32 installer
• Test installation on all target platforms
  • Install on a clean system. Remove any old Trac installation before testing

• Tag/copy version in subversion
• Upload to ​http://ftp.edgewall.com/
• Update TracDownload
• Post on trac-announce@…
• Update freshmeat entry

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See also: TracDev