Check in Jira that all issues included in this release are in the right state and marked as being contained in this release
Rename the release from ‘Kokua Next’ in Jira to the release’s actual version
Set the release in Jira to released state
Create a new ‘Kokua Next’ release in Jira
Write the release notes, including automatically generated content from Jira, publish them here and link to them from the Release Notes index page
Make sure that the viewer mechanism which displays release notes when a new version is first launched successfully accesses this version’s release notes
Update the Downloads page with new MD5 values and links to the new downloads
Update the Sourceforge default download for each platform which will trigger email notifications to those subscribed. The RLV variant is set as the default for each platform since it’s consistently the most popular download
Write and publish the blog post here announcing the new build
Send an inworld group notice to announce the build