1) find . -type f | egrep -v '.svn|RELEASE' | \ xargs perl -pi -e 's,1.10-dev,1.10,g' Update Changes - add the date for 1.10 entry svn ci -m "prep 1.10 release" 2) make distclean 3) perl Makefile.PL 4) make all test install 5) make dist clean 6) svn copy -m "tag 1.10" \ https://svn.perl.org/modules/Apache-DBI/trunk \ https://svn.perl.org/modules/Apache-DBI/tags/rel_1.10 7) find . -type f | egrep -v '.svn|Changes|RELEASE' | \ xargs perl -pi -e 's,1.10,1.11-dev,g' 8) Add an entry to Changes for 1.11-dev 9) svn ci -m "roll on to 1.11-dev" 10) forward the PAUSE email with MD5 sum and Changes to modperl@perl.apache.org.