0. Run full test suite in all branches and in master. Continue if all tests passed. 1. If release branch is not master - run devscripts/prerelease $NEW_TAG; if it's master - run devscripts/prerelease $NEW_TAG master. The script checks out the release branch and calls editor; if it's the first stable release of the branch - edit build-all-docs, advance stable branch; if it is a stable release - edit docs/News.rst to set release date; update version, the list of contributors, the list of changes and download URL in ANNOUNCE.rst; edit __version__.py and README.rst in the release branch - fix versions. Edit section [egg_info] in setup.cfg - set if it is a stable or development release. In setup.py edit "Development Status" in trove classifiers; edit download URLs: if a non-stable version - append 'dev' and date stamp, for a stable version remove 'dev' and date stamp). Commit. Verify. 2. If it's not master - null-merge to the next higher branch. 3. If release branch is not master - run devscripts/prerelease-tag $NEW_TAG; if it's master - run devscripts/prerelease-tag $NEW_TAG master. This checks out the release branch and creates the new tag at the head of the release branch. 4. Run devscripts/release. This generates and uploads new archives to PyPI and if it is a stable release - uploads archives and release announcement (ANNOUNCE.rst) to SourceForge. Move old releases at SourceForge to subdirectory OldFiles. 5. Run devscripts/postrelease. The script restores ANNOUNCE.rst and setup.cfg from the previous commit (HEAD~). It calls editor; update next version, remove the list of contributors and the list of changes, edit download URL in ANNOUNCE.rst. Edit README.rst and docs/News.rst - add new version. 6. Run devscripts/push-all in the development repository to push all branches and tags to the public repositories. 7. Generate new docs using devscripts/build-all-docs. Upload docs using devscripts/publish-docs. 8. Send announcement to the SQLObject mailing list. For a stable release send announcements to python, python-announce and python-db mailing lists. 9. Announce new release(s) at Twitter (https://twitter.com/SQLObject) and Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLObject). If it is a stable release - announce it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_object-relational_mapping_software.