Update the date in the manual (docs/doxygen/mainpages/manual.h).
+Update the release announcement post in docs/publicity/announce.txt.
+
Creating release files
----------------------
Upload the files to SourceForge. This can be done via the web interface or just
scp to sfusername,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z
+The following files need to be uploaded:
+
+ wxMSW-Setup-2.9.3.exe
+ wxWidgets-x.y.z.7z
+ wxWidgets-x.y.z.tar.bz2
+ wxWidgets-x.y.z.zip
+ wxWidgets-x.y.z_Headers.zip
+ wxWidgets-docs-chm-x.y.z.zip
+ wxWidgets-docs-html-x.y.z.tar.bz2
+ wxWidgets-docs-html-x.y.z.zip
+
You will need to use the web interface to mark the latest uploaded files as
being "default downloads" for the appropriate platforms (.zip or .exe for MSW,
.tar.bz2 for everything else) as otherwise SourceForge would continue to suggest
people to download old files.
-Also upload docs/release_files.mdwn as README.md to display it by default when
-its directory is viewed on the web.
+Next, update (at least the versions and SHA1 sums, but maybe more) and upload
+docs/release_files.mdwn and docs/release_binaries.mdwn files. They need to be
+renamed to README.md on SF to be shown when the directory is viewed, i.e. do:
+
+ scp docs/release_files.mdwn \
+ sfuser,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z/README.md
+ scp docs/release_binaries.mdwn \
+ sfuser,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z/binaries/README.md
+
+And upload the change log too:
+
+ scp docs/changes.txt \
+ sfuser,wxwindows@frs.sf.net:/home/frs/project/w/wx/wxwindows/x.y.z
+
Also upload the files to the FTP mirror at ftp.wxwidgets.org (ask Chris for
access if you don't have it).
Announcement
------------
-Post announcement at least to wx-announce@googlegroups.com.
+Post docs/publicity/announce.txt at least to wx-announce@googlegroups.com.
TODO: where else to announce it?
Update www.wxwidgets.org, usually a news item is enough but something more can
be called for for major releases.
+Also update downloads/index.html to mention the new latest release.
+
Post to wxBlog if necessary.