Previous release: #4352 (CGAL-5.1)

Next release: #5745 (CGAL-5.3)

Before the beta release

• Update of the Supported platforms.
• Update the Installation/lib/cmake/CGAL/CGALConfigVersion.cmake
• Update the file Installation/include/CGAL/version.h (for header-only)
• change the crontab to add --beta 1 to the command line
• Diff of the change log of 5.2 with 5.1 to check only 5.2 was modified.
• Add links to the file CHANGES.md (Prepare CHANGES.md for 5.2 #5159)
• Rewrap the file CHANGES.md
• Reorder the file CHANGES.md
• Update Documentation/doc/resources/1.8.13/menu_version.js and the other two copies
• Prepare the announcement mail of the beta release
• Prepare the modification of the web site, in upcoming (announcement plus release graph)
• open the milestone for the release
• remove cpp11, BOOST_FOREACH and co introduced by a merge of 4.14 branch (Remove cpp11::(tuple|get) #4774)
• Create new tables for features/small features with closed review for the next release

After the beta release

• change the crontab to add --beta 2 to the command line
• Update the file Installation/include/CGAL/version.h (for header-only)
• Update the file Installation/lib/cmake/CGAL/CGALConfigVersion.cmake
• clone the milestone
• PR for brew package: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
• PR for vcpkg: [CGAL] Upgrade to 5.2 microsoft/vcpkg#15047
• RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-2524e13dbd
• Update /wiki/Releases
• Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-beta-release)
• Upload the pre-compiled demos
• Check the pre-compiled demos run correctly

Before the official release

• Update the public_release_name
• Update the file Installation/include/CGAL/version.h (for header-only)
• change the crontab to remove --beta 1 from the command line
• Update menu_version.js in the documentation.
• remove cpp11, BOOST_FOREACH and co introduced by a merge of 4.14 branch
• Generate Windows installer (?)

After the official release

• Tag PRs with bash tag_pr_per_release.sh (see Add script to label PR merge in a release since the previous major one #4000)
• Update /home/lrineau/CGAL/create_internal_release on cgal.gf.com
• Update the bug-fix number in the branch
• Update /wiki/Releases
• Update https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/wiki/Internal-Releases
• Create a new issue for the check list of the next release
• Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-release) + remove the beta flag (latest-beta-release)
• Update Travis config file of cgal-swig-bindings
• Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
• update PR for brew package cgal 5.2 Homebrew/homebrew-core#67434 ✔️
• update PR for vcpkg [CGAL] Upgrade to 5.2 microsoft/vcpkg#15047 ✔️
• update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-1888a42ee2 ✔️
  • COPR package
• Add news entry for cgal-web
• Update https://geometryfactory.com/ with news from GF.

After a bug-fix release 5.2.1

• Tag PRs with bash tag_pr_per_release.sh (see Add script to label PR merge in a release since the previous major one #4000)
• Update the bug-fix number in the branch
• Update /wiki/Releases
• Update the Github milestone
• Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-release) + remove the beta flag (latest-beta-release)
• Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
• update PR for brew package:
• update PR for vcpkg:
• update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-4bf0af854e
• Add news entry for cgal-web
• Email announcement

After a bug-fix release 5.2.2

• Tag PRs with bash tag_pr_per_release.sh (see Add script to label PR merge in a release since the previous major one #4000)
• Update the bug-fix number in the branch
• Update /wiki/Releases
• Update the Github milestone
• Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-release) + remove the beta flag (latest-beta-release)
• Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
• update PR for brew package:
• update PR for vcpkg:
• update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-9ec124ca13
• Add news entry for cgal-web
• Email announcement

After a bug-fix release 5.2.3

• Tag PRs with bash tag_pr_per_release.sh (see Add script to label PR merge in a release since the previous major one #4000)
• Update the bug-fix number in the branch
• Update /wiki/Releases
• Update the Github milestone
• Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-release) + remove the beta flag (latest-beta-release)
• Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
• update PR for brew package:
• update PR for vcpkg:
• update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-62ce8c6222- [ ] Add news entry for cgal-web
• Email announcement

After a bug-fix release 5.2.4

• Tag PRs with bash tag_pr_per_release.sh (see Add script to label PR merge in a release since the previous major one #4000)
• Update the bug-fix number in the branch
• Update /wiki/Releases
• Update the Github milestone
• Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (latest-release) + remove the beta flag (latest-beta-release)
• Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
• update PR for brew package:
• update PR for vcpkg:
• update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-4f35631976
• -[ ] Add news entry for cgal-web
• Email announcement