1 update doc files: relnotes.txt, CREDITS, docs/known_issues.txt, NEWS 2 change docs/install.html to point to just the tahoe-1.3.0.zip source code file, or else to point to a directory which contains only tahoe-1.3.0.* source code files 3 make tag 4 make sure buildbot is green 5 make sure other people aren't committing at that moment 6 push tag along with some other patch to trigger buildslaves 7 make sure buildbot is green 7 make sure debs got built and uploaded properly 8 make sure a sumo sdist tarball got built and uploaded properly 9 send out relnotes.txt tahoe-announce@lists.allmydata.org, tahoe-dev@lists.allmydata.org, p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com, lwn@lwn.net, cap-talk@mail.eros-os.org, cryptography@metzdown.com, twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, duplicity-talk@nongnu.org, news@phoronix.com, python-list@python.org, cygwin@cygwin.com, linked in cloud storage group, The Boulder Linux Users' Group, cryptopp-users@googlegroups.com 10 update Wiki: x front page news, x news, old news, x parade of release notes 11 update hacktahoe.org 12 update "current version" information and make an "announcement of new release" on freshmeat 13 upload to pypi with "make make-version && python ./setup.py sdist upload register" 14 update "current version" information and make an "announcement of new release" on launchpad 15 symlink the release tarball on allmydata.org: /var/www/source/tahoe/releases/ 16 close the Milestone on the trac Roadmap