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- request Bugzilla version update (on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA or if you are Jakarta committer, ask to grant sufficient Bugzilla karma to do this himself)
- ensure changes.xml is up to date
- update JMeterVersion.java (version and year) and , build.xml (version and docversion) and NOTICE (year)
- build site documents, having first cleaned out existing files (so obsolete files will be removed):
Wiki Markup \[clean-docs\] then \[docs-site\]
- 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 minimum supported Java and latest Java - especially for GUI
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