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+h1. Releasing Tracks
+
+These steps are for maintainers with git commit access
+
+h2. Major release
+
+Create maintenance branch for release. For example for release 2.0
+
+<pre>
+git checkout -b -r 2.0_branch
+</pre> 
+
+Assuming
+
+* Documentation was updated in master
+** /README
+** /doc/CHANGELOG
+** README_DEVELOPERS
+* Manual was updated on branch gh-pages
+* default databases are current, i.e. migrated and VACUUMed by
+<pre>
+sqlite db/tracks-20-blank.db
+vi config/database.yml --&gt; change development db to sqlite db/tracks-20-blank.db
+rake db:migrate
+sqlite3 db/tracks-20-blank.db
+vacuum;
+.exit
+</pre>
+
+repeat for tracks-20-example.db and tracks-20-test.db
+
+* update version numbers and check copyright dates in
+** README
+** /doc/CHANGELOG
+** /config/environment.rb and comment out the git date
+* create release tag
+<pre>
+git tag v2.0RC2
+git push --tags
+</pre>
+
+h2. Minor release
+
+tbd
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