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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")
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")
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	7	1. Add all items to NEWS
	8	2. Update the contributors list in NEWS ("make git-contrib")
	9	3. Update the time and place in NEWS
	10	4. Update version in configure.ac and library numbers in Makefile.am
	11	5. Check that "make distcheck" works
	12	6. Tag the release ("make git-tag")
	13	7. Upload the documentation ("make doc-sync")
	14	8. Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
	15	9. Send announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS
	16	10. Update IRC topic ("/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released")