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• request Bugzilla version update
• ensure changes.xml is up to date
• update JMeterVersion.java
• build site documents and javadoc and update in SVN
• build and test
  

Generate Release

• tag all the files with the new version tag
• extract files from SVN using the tag into a new directory tree
• create distribution files:
  • ant distribution site -Djmeter.version=m.n -Duser.name=user-AT-apache.org
  • sign distribution files (gpg -ba file)
    

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