Chapter 4. Creating A Release

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Manual Package Updates
Update html/welcome.html
Do a Sanity Check
Review include/dist/configure.sh
Check RELEASE Values
Update html/log/changelog.at
Run nstcvs commit
Run make release-tag
Run make release
Check Release Information
Boot Release
Transfer to SourceForge
Extract and Upload: "nst-vm-livecd-1.10.0.zip"
Build and Upload: "nst-vm-1.10.0.zip"
Update RELEASE
Update Release Information in the Menus
Build Release Documents
Build Release PDFs
Update Release Notes
Start Next Release Section in Changelog
Update/Add Manifest and Release Links
Update Manifest
Download And Verify MD5 Values
Commit and Publish HTML Updates
Make Announcements
Grab a Beer

Periodically, developers associated with the Network Security Toolkit project will create a public release of the Network Security Toolkit. The following provides a very brief outline of the steps involved in creating a release:

Make sure that you have the latest version of the Metasploit exploits. This is done by running: src/bin/metasploit_fetch_build.