How to make new release

How to make the release with the new Makefile

update News
update README and NEWS with new information (version, changelog)
check if Authors is in sync with News
check if AUTHORS is in sync with Authors
change VERSION string in Makefile
make full-ttf, make pre-patch and commit the changes to bump version strings in the sfd files
make condensed, make pre-patch and commit the changes to update the condensed faces
make clean, make all to generate all ttf files, and new status files
copy new status files (from build/) to main directory and commit changes
tag Subversion with tag "version_X_Y" (svn copy -m "tag version X.Y" https://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dejavu/trunk https://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dejavu/tags/version_X_Y with X and Y properly replaced)
make dist to generate packages
upload packages at [1]

create new release for package dejavu with name X.Y
- changelog is from NEWS
- notes are human-readable changelog
create news item with subject "DejaVu fonts X.Y released" and text from release notes
compute MD5 and SHA256 sums for released files
update Main Page, Download, Old Downloads, Roadmap, Release candidates and Current status
recreate PDF samples: tar xjf dejavu-fonts-ttf-${old_version}.tar.bz2; tar xjf dejavu-fonts-ttf-${new_version}.tar.bz2; ./samples.sh dejavu-fonts-ttf-${new_version}/ttf dejavu-fonts-ttf-${old_version}/ttf
upload PDF samples to sftp://shell.sourceforge.net/home/groups/d/de/dejavu/htdocs/samples
update latest update date on PDF samples
send announce to dejavu-fonts mailing list
send announce to fonts AT gnome.org
update project info on freshmeat.net