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• Send a recap "[VOTE][RESULT]" email to the vote thread on the dev list with the vote counts.

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  svn mv https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.XX https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.XX

  
  

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  svn checkout --depth immediates https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tomcat/tomcat-9/

  and update the KEYS file there to be the same as the one used for release. (The download page has links pointing to this file).

• Release the Maven artifacts (https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/9.0.x/res/maven/README.txt step 4)
• Wait for the release artifacts to appear in these locations:
  • https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-[v]/
  • https://dlcdn.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-[v]/
• Update the website (e.g. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1895118)
  Note: the index and oldnews pages are sorted by date. Thus the new announcement pops up to the top of the page.
  • Update download page (update "[define v]" macro for the new version)
  • Move old announcement to oldnews page.
  • Add announcement for the new release to the front page (index).
  • Update whichversion page (the current version number).
  • Update migration page (versions in "configuration file differences" comparison form).
    • Notable changes that change behaviour and may require action when upgrading from the previous release may be added to the "noteable changes" section on the migration page.
  • Update doap_Tomcat.rdf file (version number and release date).
  • Update the docs (see http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/site/trunk/README.txt)
  • Also update docs/tomcat-[v]-doc/changelog.html to set the release date.
• Announce the release (e.g. http://markmail.org/message/xyantb3ozzmucdjt) to users@t.a.o, cc dev@t.a.o, announce@t.a.o, announce@a.o
• Update the release date in the changelog to the date the files were copied to the the release area in yyyy-mm-dd format.
  E.g. "released 2013-05-03" (for stable versions), "beta, 2007-02-08" (for betas).
• Add the version number in Bugzilla (https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/ → Administration → Products / versions)
• Drop the artifacts for the previous release from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/tomcat/tomcat-9/
• Add release data (version and date) to reporter.apache.org - https://reporter.apache.org/addrelease.html?tomcat

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