Previous release: #4989 (CGAL-5.2)

Next release: #5834 (CGAL-5.4)

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 5.3 with 5.2 to check only 5.3 was modified. (PR Prepare CHANGES.md for CGAL 5.3 #5746)
• Add links to the file CHANGES.md (PR Prepare CHANGES.md for CGAL 5.3 #5746)
• Rewrap the file CHANGES.md (PR Prepare CHANGES.md for CGAL 5.3 #5746)
• Reorder the file CHANGES.md (PR Prepare CHANGES.md for CGAL 5.3 #5746)
• 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: CGAL 5.3 Homebrew/homebrew-core#79150
• PR for vcpkg: [CGAL] Upgrade to 5.3 microsoft/vcpkg#18392
• RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-58cb81e37b
• Update /wiki/Releases
• Update https://www.cgal.org/releases.html and change the post flags (active-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)
• clone the milestone
• 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
• prepare the announcement email
• 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 (active-beta-release)
• Update Travis config file of cgal-swig-bindings
• Re-upload the pre-compiled demos
• update PR for brew package: CGAL 5.3 Homebrew/homebrew-core#79150
• update PR for vcpkg: [CGAL] Upgrade to 5.3 microsoft/vcpkg#18392
• update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-f5ed464db3
• Add news entry for cgal-web
• Update https://geometryfactory.com/ with news from GF.
• Email announcement

After a bug-fix release 5.3.1

• 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: cgal 5.3.1 Homebrew/homebrew-core#91352
• update PR for vcpkg: [cgal ] Update to 5.3.1 microsoft/vcpkg#22235
• update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-cc904c6ee3
• Add news entry for cgal-web
• Email announcement

After a bug-fix release 5.3.2

• 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 NA: close 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: Cannot be done: [cgal] version 5.3.2 microsoft/vcpkg#25170
• update RPM for Fedora: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-e4d0ac58a5
• Add news entry for cgal-web
• Email announcement