Before tagging a release
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- - First of all, go through the source and remove anything tagged
- with a comment containing the word XXX-REMOVE-BEFORE-RELEASE.
+ - First of all, go through the source (including the documentation)
+ and remove anything tagged with a comment containing the word
+ XXX-REMOVE-BEFORE-RELEASE.
For a long time we got away with never checking the current version
number in at all - all version numbers were passed into the build
- putty/LATEST.VER
-The Windows installer script:
+The Windows installer script (_three_ times, on consecutive lines,
+and again in a subsequent comment):
- putty/windows/putty.iss
- Announce the release!
+ Mail the announcement to putty-announce.
+ * Set a Reply-To on the mail so that people don't keep
+ replying to my personal address.
+ Post it to comp.security.ssh.
+ Mention it in <TDHTT> on mono.