The following checklist should be used for making a pacman release. - Ensure "make distcheck" succeeds - Call a freeze to development. - Send translation updates to Transifex at least two weeks before a major release (see below). At this stage, strings can only be changed for a major issue. - Update NEWS and README files - Pull translation updates from Transifex - Update version in configure.ac as described in file - Update doc/index.txt - Create a signed git tag (git tag -x vX.Y.Z -m "commit message") - Create and sign release tarballs (generate with "make distcheck") - Update pacman website Transifex updates are handled using the transifex client. The basic process is: - Pull updates from transifex ("tx pull -a -f") - Update po files ("make update-po") - Fix all translation errors found - Add any new locales to the relevant LINGUAS file - Optional: Make any manual changes needed (e.g. fixing spacing in a string) and update po files again - Push updated po files to transifex ("tx push -s -t --skip")