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The following lists the steps involved in preparing a new release of the NST.

The official release of the NST ISO images should only be created on the ''pristine'' development machines (under the ''repo'' directories on ''nst-dev-32'' and ''nst-dev-64'').

NOTE: As there are often significant changes between releases, these steps should be used and guidelines and revised each time a new release is created.

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* '''Review ''TODO'' Comments in "pkginfo.xml" and "*.spec" Files'''

* [[Final Merge From Development Area]]

* [[Update Package Dependency Lists]]

* [[Make Sure Public Repos Are Setup]]

* [[Manual Package Updates]]

* [[Update The Welcome Page]]

* [[Do a Sanity Check]]

* [[Check The RELEASE Values]]

* [[Update Release Notes]]

* [[Build The Manifest]]

* [[Commit All Source]]

* [[Build and Update the Yum Repository]]

* [[Build Initial Release Set]]

* [[Check Release Information]]

* [[Boot Release]]

* [[Tag Source For Release]]

* [[Transfer to SourceForge]]

* [[Build and Upload NST Virtual Machine]]

* [[Update RELEASE]]

* [[Update Release Information in the Menus]]

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* [[Build Release Documents]]

* [[Build Release PDFs]]
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* [[Update/Add Manifest and Release Links]]

* [[Update Manifest]]

* [[Download And Verify MD5 Values]]

* [[Commit and Publish HTML Updates]]

* [[Merge Changes Back To Development Area]]

* [[Make Announcements]]

* '''Grab a Beer''' - You've earned it if you made it this far (you may want to take a shower at this point as well).