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+title: Steps to a Successful Release
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+
 # Steps to a Successful Release
 
 1. Add all items to NEWS
-2. Update the contributors list in NEWS ("make git-contrib")
+2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (`ninja -C build git-contrib`)
 3. Update the time and place in NEWS
-4. Update version in configure.ac and library numbers in Makefile.am
-5. Check that "make distcheck" works
-6. Tag the release ("make git-tag")
-7. Upload the documentation ("make doc-sync")
-8. Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
-9. Send announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS
-10. Update IRC topic ("/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released")
+4. Update version and library numbers in `meson.build`
+5. Tag the release: `version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"`
+6. Do `ninja -C build`
+7. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version`
+8. Upload the documentation: `ninja -C build doc-sync`
+9. [After final release] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
+10. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate.
+11. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically.
+12. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released`)
+13. [After final release] Also push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable origin/master:master origin/master:v${version}-stable`, and change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches).