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- Ensure the LICENSE and NOTICE files are current. Check that the years in the copyright statement in the NOTICE file are correct.
- Update the README. Make sure the list of dependencies and their licenses is still accurate. Update the version number.
- Update RELEASE_NOTES. Include list of bugs that were fixed in this release.
- If it hasn't been done already, make sure the version information has been updated in build.properties, modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/tools/VersionInfo.java, modules/compiler/src/java/flex2/compiler/common/MxmlConfiguration.java, and frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/core/FlexVersion.as. The script build/set-version.xml will do most of this for you and remind you to edit MxmlConfiguration.java and FlexVersion.as by hand. Updating build.properties will update the name of the packages to apache-flex-sdk-${release.version}-incubating-src and -bin. As part of the release build, the frameworks/**/Version.as files will be updated with the release version and build number.
- It is highly recommended that you do a release build and mustella run in the develop branch and any fix any known build process issues before branching for the release.
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