1- update vers.m4 to the new version you want to release: then rerun ./bootstrap 2- update NEWS w/ appropriate items 3- ./bootstrap && ./buildall && cd A.$ARCH.$VENDOR.$OSVERSION. && make check 4- cd A.$ARCH.$VENDOR.$OSVERSION make distcheck 5 That generates a tar.gz w/ version number to drop into the ftp/http server 6- Make sure that all your files are committed at this point 7- Now tag the current trunk: 8 git tag -a am-utils-X_Y[abc]Z 9 or 10 git tag -a am-utils-X_Y_rcZ 11 If you want to move the tag, use --force 12- Push all commits and tags to the master repository 13 git push --all 14- email announcement to am-utils-announce@am-utils.org. See 15 README.release-announce as sample. 16