Steps for making a release: Prerequisites: Must have clone of https://github.com/openrocket/openrocket.git The steps below will use '(git)' to note the step requires working in the files stored on GitHub. 1. Update ./core/src/main/resources/build.properties for the new version. 2. Update ./ReleaseNotes.md 3. Update ./ChangeLog 4. gradlew clean check build dist 5. Test new features - Execute the jar created by the distribution process in the ./build/libs folder. - Do not execute it from the project directory. 7. Update ./web/html/actions/updates.php and test various versions using a different url: scp updates.php plaa,openrocket@web.sourceforge.net:htdocs/actions/testupdates.php java -Dopenrocket.debug.updateurl=http://openrocket.sourceforge.net/actions/testupdates.php -jar openrocket-22.02.jar 8. Update HTML: ./web/htp/htp.def (version number) ./web/htp/news.htp (release info) 9. Run "htp @" and check the web pages locally (htp is available from htp.sourceforge.net) 10. Tag the version in Git 'git tag -a release-XX.YY' 11. Commit files+tag to git (OpenRocket and dists, 'git push origin release-XX.YY') 12. Upload JAR and source distribution and ReleaseNotes to Sourceforge - Files -> Add Folder -> Add File 13. Update HTML to web server: cd ./web/html; scp * plaa,openrocket@web.sourceforge.net:htdocs/ 14. Test downloading from GitHub and web site 15. Update update.php to web server: cd ./web/html/actions/; scp updates.php plaa,openrocket@web.sourceforge.net:htdocs/actions/ 16. Test update checking without specific options 17. Update build.properties to "dev" version + commit 18. Send email about new release to openrocket-announce@lists.sourceforge.net