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= Release Checklist =

Krita releases follow [http://semver.org/ semantic versioning], more or less.

== Platforms ==

* Windows: x86, x64 (boud)
* OSX: x64 (boud)
* Linux: 
** Ubuntu (Dmitry)
** OpenSUSE (Leinir)
** CentOS (Boud)
** AppImage (Boud)

== Major Release ==

A major release is an increase of the major or minor version number: 2.9 to 3.0 or 3.0 to 3.1. A major release contains a large chunk of functionality and happens about once a year, just before the yearly fundraising campaign, which means a March release.

=== Checklist ===

* Three months before
** Start preparing the release booklet
* Two months before
** Send out the booklet to journalists
* One month
** Give the translation teams a heads-up
** Prepare the release announcement
* One week
** Mail the people on the pre-release announcement list (boud)
* Just before the release
** Write Dmitry to make a post for Russian Community (http://vk.com/ilovefreeart)
** Add the new version to Bugzilla, disable the previous version. On releasing 3.0, 2.9 is no longer supported and should be disabled.
** Create the translations tarball to integrate in the binary builds
** Update the krita.rc version number
** Add a tag to git
** Change the version number (CMakeLists.txt)
** Create the release branch

* After the release

** Update the version number  (CMakeLists.txt)
** Change to the new splash when avaialable

== Minor Release ==

A minor release is an increase of the patch-level number: 2.9.1 to 2.9.2. A minor release can contain not just bug fixes but also new features. A minor release happens once every month.

=== Checklist ===

* Two weeks
** Feature freeze
* One week
** String freeze
** Prepare the release announcement
** Give the translation teams a heads-up
* Just before the release:
** Create the translations tarball to integrate in the binary builds
** Add the new version to Bugzilla version
** Update the krita.rc version number
** Add a tag to git
** Change the version number  (CMakeLists.txt)
* After the release