Releasing

Use these steps to make releases of Jansson:

• Write a changelog entry. Use git log PREV...CUR to view the commits.
• Use git grep to find all occurences of the old version number and replace them with the new one
• Update libtool version-info if needed (see Library interface versions in Libtool manual), it’s set in src/Makefile.am
• Update JANSSON_VERSION and JANSSON_SOVERSION in CMakeLists.txt.
• Clean the source tree: git clean -d -x -f
• Bootstrap autotools: autoreconf -i
• Configure: ./configure
• Run distchek: make VALGRIND=1 distcheck
• Let: v=X.Y.Z
• Commit: git commit -a -m "jansson $v"
• Create a tag: git tag -s -m "jansson $v" v$v
• Make a tar.bz2 tarball: make dist-bzip2
• Sign the source tarballs: for s in gz bz2; do gpg --detach-sign --armor jansson-$v.tar.$s; done
• Push: git push origin <branch> tag v$v (replace <branch> with master or the branch name)
• Upload tarballs and signatures to digip.org, modify the Jansson page links
• Write a release email to jansson-users mailing list