1) perl -pi -e 's,1.05-dev,1.05,' Changes Update Changes, add the date for 1.05 entry svn ci -m "prep 1.05 release" 2) make distclean 3) perl Makefile.PL 4) make all test install clean 5) make dist 6) svn copy -m "tag 1.04" \ https://svn.perl.org/modules/Apache-DBI/trunk \ https://svn.perl.org/modules/Apache-DBI/tags/rel_1_04 7) find . -type f | grep -v .svn | xargs perl -pi -e 's,1.04,1.05-dev,g' 8) Add an entry to Changes for 1.05-dev 9) svn ci -m "roll on to 1.05-dev" 10) forward the PAUSE email with MD5 sum and Changes to modperl@perl.apache.org.