Follow these steps to make a new VuFind release. (This page is primarily for Demian's reference).

• Make sure full test suite is passing in both MySQL and PostgreSQL configurations.
• Make sure that Vagrant configuration still works.
• Make sure packages/DEBIAN/control, packages/DEBIAN/changelog contain correct version numbers and dates for new release.
• Make sure build.xml and package.json reflect correct version number. Remember that package.json version number must have three parts – e.g. 3.1.0, not 3.1.
• Make sure config.ini generator setting reflects correct version number.
• Tag a new release in Git.
• Tag the corresponding browse handler version in GitHub.
• Check out the tagged release.
• Run “phing package” to build packages.
• Update changelog.
• Test/update migration notes.
• Upload packages to Sourceforge; be sure to set new default download.
• Upload binaries to the GitHub release and include link to changelog in description.
• Test/update installation notes for all platforms.
• Update Downloads page and the news footer in GitHub pages to point to new release.
• Update release status in JIRA.
• Close milestone on GitHub.
• Post news article on Sourceforge feed.
• Post announcements to mailing lists: vufind-general, vufind-tech, code4lib, web4lib
• Send press release to Marshall Breeding and Rachel Fadlon.
• Tweet release on @vufindorg.
• Update the live demo to the new version.