	Notes on Preparing a GDAL Source Release
	========================================

1) Place Release notice in ChangeLog file. 

2) Update the release date, and number information at the top of gcore/gdal.h.
   Three macros: GDAL_VERSION_NUM, GDAL_RELEASE_DATE and GDAL_RELEASE_NAME.

3) Update the VERSION file.

3.1) Update GDAL_VER macro in GDALmake.opt.in. 

3.2) Update LIBGDAL_CURRENT/REVISION/AGE macros in GDALmake.opt.in.
   - For a release with no interface changes just bump REVISION. 
   - Adding interfaces, bump CURRENT/AGE, set REVISION to 0. 
   - Deleting interfaces / compatibility issues - bump CURRENT, others to zero.

4) Prepare release overview in the NEWS file.  The cvs2cl.pl script can be 
   useful for collecting a full listing of all CVS log entries.  It can be
   useful to perform this and some of the other cvs intensive steps on 
   remotesensing.org if possible, to minimize CVS latency. 

   eg. 

   % cvs2cl.pl > AutoChangeLog

5) Update the GDAL gcore/index.dox to refer to the newly to be created
   source files, and commit. 

6) Tag the release set in CVS. 

   eg. 
   % cvs tag -F gdal_1_1_6 

7) Create the source distributions using the mkgdaldist.sh script.  The
   argument should be the version number (ie. 1.1.6).  Hit enter when 
   prompted for a CVS password.

   eg.
   % mkgdaldist.sh 1.1.6

8) Publish the resulting files.  

   eg.
   % scp gdal-1.1.5.tar.gz gdal115.zip remotesensing.org:/ftp/remotesensing/pub/gdal
   

9) Announce release to the gdal-dev@remotesensing.org and 
   sfcom-dev@yahoogroups.com mailing lists.

10) Update the freshmeat.net entry for GDAL. 






 