1) find . -type f | grep -v .svn | \ xargs perl -pi -e 's,1.06,1.06,g' Update Changes - add the date for 1.06 entry svn ci -m "prep 1.06 release" 2) make distclean 3) perl Makefile.PL 4) make all test install 5) make dist clean 6) svn copy -m "tag 1.06" \ https://svn.perl.org/modules/Apache-DBI/trunk \ https://svn.perl.org/modules/Apache-DBI/tags/rel_1.06 7) find . -type f | egrep -v '.svn|Changes|RELEASE' | \ xargs perl -pi -e 's,1.06,1.06,g' 8) Add an entry to Changes for 1.06 9) svn ci -m "roll on to 1.06" 10) forward the PAUSE email with MD5 sum and Changes to modperl@perl.apache.org.