Release checklist Update builtins.c Regenerate joe.pot Make sure any joerc.in changes have been made to other rc files Compile with maximum warnings Try old systems: Redhat 7.3 Try both 32 and 64-bit systems Try latest gcc / clang Try cygwin Try a big-endian system (Power) Update NEWS.md file Update documentation: docs/man.md Update man page from man.md using ronn (maybe makefile should do this, but ronn is a pain to install) Update version in configure.ac, rerun ./autojoe Run "make dist", unpack new distribution and make sure it configures and compiles. Add tag to mercurial Install new source distribution on Sourceforge, create release announcement Update any links to point to the new version (maybe no longer necessary) Try to push latest version to downstream distributions (Cygwin, Debian, etc.)