Release tasks

Feature freeze

Send a mail to our list uh-beta and ask for testers!
Test content: Start a new tutorial, free game, random map. Build up a settlement, build each available building at least once, check all buttons and icons. Pause and unpause the game. AI! Save/load the game. Check multiplayer, screenshots, chat. Map editor: start a game with a generated map. See whether logfiles are empty, options are fine, etc.

Update changelog
Update AUTHORS, LICENSE. Generate credits from AUTHORS (script in development/)
Tag the commit that is used for the release in git. Use git tag -a to annotate this milestone with its features (best check the changelog highlights for these)
Update version numbers in development/create_release_tarball.sh and development/create_windows_installer.sh
upload the exported tarball from above tag at github to sourceforge (compressed)

Compile the actual packages for the different platforms, especially be careful with Python and FIFE:
- Windows installer: nihathrael
- .deb packages: christoph
- .rpm packages: gryffus (OBS)
- Arch PKGBUILD: nihathrael
- gentoo overlay: totycro
- Mac: enno4uh
Atlases!
Ensure that all compiled release packages has been tested at least once, preferably twice, by a different developer who runs the same platform
Ensure that the version displayed in the main menu is accurate
Change the "most recent version" file(s) on our homepage (for the update checker)
Upload the tested release packages at sourceforge
Make sure that the releases at sourceforge are properly tagged as standard packages for the different supported platforms
Update the version number of the Update-Server (nihathrael)

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