* Update help (optional)
  * Export the contents from svn://sophie2.org/sophie2/trunk/sophie2-platform/doc/app-help .
  * Use the HelpGenerator tool from the manage/dev-tools/help in the repository to generate ToC - use absolute paths.
  * Use the jhelpdev tool to generate search index. First fix the project file (the location of the help files). Use the "Create all" button.
  * Run HelpGenerator again.
  * Delete old help dirs from the org.sophie2.main.func.help module in the src/main/resources/distrib/help .
  * Commit the deletion.
  * Copy new help files in the same place.
  * Commit.
  * Help update is complete.
 * Update version
  * Stop automatic project building in eclipse (Project->build automatically).
  * Search in all pom.xml files for the string "<version>2.[major].[minor]</version>" where major and minor are the appropriate numbers of the new version. There should be no results.
  * Search and replace the same string with the old version with the same with the new version.
  * Perform a maven_build in the terminal.
  * Enable automatic project buildingin eclipse.
  * Open Launcher.java and fix the constants with the sophie2 version and build-id. The last number in the build-id is the next revision of the repository.
  * Open all subclasses of Launcher and fix the "getBundleLocation" method if it depends on the version number.
  * Open the org.sophie2.dev/src/izpack/sophie2_install.xml and fix versions.
  * Open resource_book.jspx and change the applet codebase (just change the version number).
  * If the version of the org.sophie2.launcher module should be changed, then the shell scripts, windows executables, MacOS info.plist files and applet and JWS launch files should also be chnaged.
  * Commit the changes.
  * Version update is complete.
 * Build release
  * In the sophie2-platform directory perform a maven_build .
  * in the sophie2-platform/modules/org.sophie2.server.webui directory perform a maven_build .
  * In the sophie2-platform execute the release shell script.
  * Copy modules/org.sophie2.dev/target/*zip files to a directory with the release.
  * Copy modules/org.sophie2.dev/target/izpack/packs directory to the directory with the release.
  * Building is complete - the results are in the abovementioned directory.
 * Upload release to servers
  * Copy the release directory to sophie2.org.
  * On sophie2.org copy the contents of the release direcotry to /var/www/downloads .(Appropriate permissions on the server are needed.)
  * Now files can be downloaded and the installers should be working.
 * Update JavaWebStart and applet
  * Copy sophie-version-platform.zip to /var/www/sophie2-reader-applet/, /var/www/sophie2-reader-jws/ and /var/www/sophie2-author-jws and unzip them
  * For JWS copy the contents of the sophie-version/modules to modules and delete the files for the old version. Replace the org.sophie2.launcher-version.jar and if needed fix the jnlp files.
  * For the applet copy the directory /var/www/sophie2-reader-applet/[old-version-number] to /var/www/sophie2-reader-applet/[new-version-number] and replace the files in the reader/modules directory. Replace the org.sophie2.launcher-verion-number.jar and fix the index.html file.
 * Update wiki page
  * Copy the current Downloads page to Downloads/SophieX.X.X
  * In Downloads/SophieX.X.X replace "The current release is" with "This is an old release"
  * In Downloads page replace all version numbers with current version numbers (including the filenames)
  * In Downloads page replace the build number with current build numbers
  * In New features and fixes put the new features and fixes based on their impact. You can get them from the timeline, checking tickets with changed "implementation_score" for the period from the last release
  * In Known issues remove obsolete bullets, if any, depending on fixes from previous point
  * In Known issues add lines for known issues with high impact
  * Check some download files to be sure that links work
 * Update users web site 
  * ToBeDone