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- request Bugzilla version update
- ensure changes.xml is up to date
- update JMeterVersion.java (version and year) and build.xml (version and docversion)
- build site documents, having first cleaned out existing files (so obsolete files will be removed):
Wiki Markup unmigrated-wiki-markup\[clean-docs\] then \[docs-site\]
\[clean-apidocs\] then \[docs-api\]
- update docs tree in SVN
- build code
- test
- GUI and non-GUI using host with graphic capability
- non-GUI only using host with no graphic capability
- ideally test on Java 1.4 and latest Java - especially for GUI
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- tag all the files with a new RC tag, e.g. 2.3.2RC1
- extract files from SVN using the tag into a new directory tree
- create a directory (<libextra>) to contain 3rd party libraries not included in the distribution
- copy following jars to <libextra>: beanshell
- create distribution files:
- ant distribution -lib=<libextra> -Djmeter.version=m.n -Duser.name=user-AT-apache.org
- sign distribution files (gpg -ba file)
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