Steps to publish a new version
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NAMING:
  HG_OLD_VERSION - Mercurial version string of the OLD version e.g. 0_7_0
  HG_NEW_VERSION - Mercurial version string of the NEW version e.g. 0_7_1
  NEW_VERSION - Version string of the wxGlade version to release


STEPS:
 1. Close last stable branch
    # hg update <HG_OLD_VERSION>
    # hg commit --close-branch -m "Closed
    # WXG-BRANCH-VERSION_<HG_OLD_VERSION> branch"
    # hg update default

 2. Update documentation 
  * NEWS.txt
  * README.txt
  * README.SF.md
  * wxGlade.desktop
  * wxGlade manual especially the error section
  * Add new changes to changelog file "CHANGES.txt"
    # hg log --template=changelog > CHANGES.txt
        
 3. Change the version number in wxglade-installer.iss to "<NEW_VERSION>"

 4. Commit all open changes

 5. Create a new Mercurial tag
    # hg tag rel_0.6.7
        
 6. Create a branch for maintaining stable release
    # hg branch WXG-BRANCH-VERSION_<HG_NEW_VERSION>
    # hg commit --message "Created WXG-BRANCH-VERSION_<HG_NEW_VERSION> branch"
        
 7. Create a version.py file in stable branch
    Please ensure that the version string as the same as in
    wxglade-installer.iss
    # cat version.py
        #
        # This is an automatically generated file. Manual changes will be
        # overwritten without warning.
        #

        __version__ = "<NEW_VERSION>"
    # hg add version.py -m "Add version file"
        
 8. Push changes into public repository

 9. Create all packages
    - build windows installer (see docs/BuildingInstaller.txt)
    - create zip and tar.gz source packages
      # make release
          
10. Update web page at wxglade.sf.net
    - upload packages to SF
    - update README.SF.md and upload to SF
    - update news section in htdocs/bits/news.html
    - update HTML and PDF manual in htdocs/manual
        
11. Send notification email to wxGlade mailing list

12. Switch back to default branch
    # hg update default

13. Change version number in wxglade-installer.iss back to "HG"