- Bump vendor string for encoder changes in lib/info.c
- Bump release version and sonames in configure.ac
- Update CHANGES.
-- Verify 'make distcheck' works.
+- Update overall copyright dates on COPYING and README.
- Verify everything is committed.
-- Tag release:
- svn cp https://svn.xiph.org/trunk/vorbis https://svn.xiph.org/tags/vorbis/libvorbis-x.y.z
+- Tag release: `git tag -S v1.x.y` Paste the CHANGES entry as a tag msg.
+- Verify 'make distcheck' works.
+- Publish the tag: `git push --tags`
- Copy source packages to a checkout of https://svn.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/
-- Add them to the repo and update checksum files there.
-- Update download links on xiph.org.
+- Add the packages to the repo and update checksum files there.
+- Update https://xiph.org/downloads/
+- Update topic in the #vorbis irc channel on freenode.net.
+- Post announcement to https://xiph.org/press/ and link from front page.
- Announce new release to mailing list.