Steps to create a release

1. Create a stabilization branch and update the version number in Version.java (on trunk)
2. (Minimally) run the ANSI tests and Maxima test suite
3. Stabilize for 2 weeks, during which:
   1. Changes get committed to trunk and backported to the branch from there. On each backport re-run the ANSI tests and the Maxima test suite
   2. Update CHANGES
   3. Check README for up-to-date-ness
4. On the day of release:
   1. Check out the branch (fresh check out)
   2. Change the version number in Version.java (remove the '-dev' suffix)
   3. Update the release date in CHANGES
   4. Run the Ant build
   5. Run the Ant 'abcl.clean' target
   6. Run the Lisp build
   7. Commit the working copy to the version tag
   8. Check out the tag and use it to:
      1. Run the Ant 'abcl.source.zip' and 'abcl.source.tar' targets
      2. Unpack the zip and run compilation on the sources extracted
      3. Run the ANSI tests on the build result
      4. Do the same for the .tar archive
5. Sign (PGP/GPG) the archives
6. Upload the archives and their signatures (to SourceForge?)
7. Update the ​cliki page
8. Update the ​cl-user.net page
9. Add a blog item to the ​ABCL-DEV blog
10. Update the ABCL website
11. Send an update to armedbear-announce@ and armedbear-devel@
12. Update (or ask for an update) the title of the ​#lisp FreeNode channel