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-* Release documentation
-** Pre-release checklist
- - update AUTHORS, NEWS, check other files
- - update version in configure.ac and other places
- - run "make distcheck" and then create tar-ball via "make dist"
- - unpack tar-ball, check that it builds OK
- - tag with signature
- - check openSUSE build
- - update git@savannah, github
- - update po/pot files via "cd po; make update-po". This should happen
-   after the version number has been updated, so that the po-files
-   automatically get the correct version number.
- - send pot-file to translationproject
-
-** Release
-
-See script make-xboard-release that can handle GNU-upload and tagging in git.
-
-- update webpage, manuals
-- upload on gnu
-- update enginge-intf.html
-- create savannah news item
-- email lists; add short discription of xboard to news item
-  1) email gnu (check admin page for gnu) http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Announcements.html#Announcements
-  2) email chess servers (ICS, FICS) and other web directories
-  3) email linux distributions/update opensuse (Arun can handle OpenSUSE)
-  4) email info-gnu-chess
-- update freshmeat.net (Tim can do this, email him)
-- newsgroups add short discription of xboard to news item
-  1)  gnu.chess, info-gnu-chess
-  2)  rec.games.chess.computer
-  3)  comp.os.linux.announce
-  4)  WinBoard forum web page (HGM does this one)
-- update git to the next pre-release
-
-** Template for emails
-
-fill in the <...>
-
-Subject: release of XBoard version <...>
-
-Hello,
-
-A new version of XBoard is available. Here are some details:
-
-Short description:
-
-XBoard is a graphical user interface for chess in all its major forms,
-including international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi Japanese chess)
-and Makruk. Many variations of chess are also supported.
-
-Web page:
-
-http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/
-
-Download at:
-
-http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xboard/
-
-Windows binaries will be available at:
-
-http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewforum.php?f=19
-
-Development at:
-
-https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xboard/
-
-News:
-
-<list of most important new features>
-See the NEWS file in the distribution or git for more details.