GitLab

1. Prepare the sources for tarball generation
2. Change software version and library versions in configure.in
3. Update CHANGES
4. Ensure the release notes are correct for this release
5. Ensure the metainformation is correct for this release
6. Make sure the tests are passing
7. Create a tag (name vX_Y_Z[-alphatag], content BIND X.Y.Z[-alphatag], signed with a developer's GPG key): git tag -u <DEVELOPER_KEYID> -a -s -m "BIND X.Y.Z" vX.Y.Z
8. Push the changes and tag
9. Create the tarball
10. Create the Windows zips
11. Have QA sanity check the tarball and zips
12. Request the signature on the tarballs
13. Make tarballs and signatures available to download
14. Communication
15. Edit the release https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/tags and the NEWS snippet + links to the tarballs
16. Update the website(?), public release notes(?)
17. Write release e-mail to bind9-announce
18. Post short note to Twitter
19. Update http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND
20. Update DEB and RPM packages