Developer Area/Release Instructions/Old Major Release

Here are the things to do before running through the usual release instructions when preparing a new major release.

Major releases should be preceded by at least one release candidate.

Creating the new branch

• Create a new branch in the admin section of Gerrit
• Copy the changelog from the previous stable branch
• Update the branch name in the "push" target of the Makefile

Bump the version on master

• Go to the master branch and bump the version to 1.5.0dev (if you just created the 1.4_STABLE branch)

Bump the stable_version on mahara.org

(This is what sets the right download link in the header.)

Here's what I added in htdocs/local/upgrade.php for the 1.4 release:

if ($oldversion < 2011061501) {
    set_config('mahara_stable_version', '1.4');
}