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<a href="https://gitlab.com/dueno">Daiki Ueno</a>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC17" class="line" lang="markdown">|stable|3.6.x |bi-monthly |</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC18" class="line" lang="markdown">|next |- | |</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC21" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="gh" style="color: #999;"># Release process</span></span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC23" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p"> 0.</span> Create a new 'milestone' for the next release and move all issues present in the</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC24" class="line" lang="markdown"> current release milestone.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC25" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p"> 1.</span> Verification of release notes: ensure that release notes (<span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">NEWS</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">NEWS</span><span class="p">)</span>) exist</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC26" class="line" lang="markdown"> for this release, and include all significant changes since last release.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC27" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p"> 2.</span> Update of release date in <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">NEWS</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">NEWS</span><span class="p">)</span>, and bump of version number in</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC28" class="line" lang="markdown"> <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">configure.ac</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">configure.ac</span><span class="p">)</span> as well as soname numbers in <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">m4/hooks.m4</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">m4/hooks.m4</span><span class="p">)</span>.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC29" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p"> 3.</span> make distcheck</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC30" class="line" lang="markdown"><span class="p"> 4.</span> git tag -s $(VERSION). The 3.6.12 was including both the 3.6.12 and</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC31" class="line" lang="markdown"> gnutls_3_6_12 tags, but it may make sense to only use the version from</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC32" class="line" lang="markdown"> now on.</span>
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<p dir="auto">I'm a bit disappointed that this convention change was introduced without any discussion. In git, prefixing "v" is a <a href="https://semver.org/#is-v123-a-semantic-version" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">common</a> <a href="https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">practice</a>, and it wouldn't confuse tools like <a href="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/build-aux/git-version-gen#n89" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">git-version-gen</a>.</p>
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