Developer Area/Release Instructions

Mahara creates 2 major releases per year (April: X.04.0, and October: X.10.0). We also create 'minor point' releases when we need to add urgent fixes and security updates (e.g. X.04.1, X.04.2 etc).

This page contains links to details about the procedure to follow when building a release for general download, i.e. a zip file.

Doing minor point releases is slightly different to doing a major release.

For the purposes of these instructions, assume we are releasing version X.Y.Z of Mahara.

Release steps

1. Pre-release comms
2. Pre-release steps
3. Release day steps

Older pages kept for reference:

• Major release
• Release candidate
• Old release instructions
• Release script

Helper pages

• Creating a GPG key
• Version Numbering policy
• Release Policy