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These instructions assume you are updating Firefox, the current version is 3.0.1, and the new version is 3.0.2. Substitute as appropriate. In every case and change, '''make sure all pages validate properly'''.
These instructions assume you are updating Firefox, the current version is 3.0.1, and the new version is 3.0.2. Substitute as appropriate. In every case and change, '''make sure all pages validate properly'''.


Note that while this list is specific to Firefox, most of the same things happen for Thunderbird releases.
Note that this list is specific to Firefox, see [[Webtools:Thunderbird_Release_Notes]] for Thunderbird specific information.


Once everything has been tagged for production, the QA contact for the release will file a bug under mozilla.org :: Server Operations: Web Content Push to have the pages pushed live at the appropriate time. Note that the website changes need to be live '''''at least 15-30 minutes prior''''' to Build & Release pushing out update snippets in order to make sure that users do not see 404 errors for pages.
Once everything has been tagged for production, the QA contact for the release will file a bug under mozilla.org :: Server Operations: Web Content Push to have the pages pushed live at the appropriate time. Note that the website changes need to be live '''''at least 15-30 minutes prior''''' to Build & Release pushing out update snippets in order to make sure that users do not see 404 errors for pages.
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* change /xx/l10n/product.php files to update the product version number to 2.0.0.x (still used in the old function generating release notes links on the site)
* change /xx/l10n/product.php files to update the product version number to 2.0.0.x (still used in the old function generating release notes links on the site)
* make sure we have the 2.0.0.x number into the php function that generates breadcrumbs if it is more than 2.0.0.20
* make sure we have the 2.0.0.x number into the php function that generates breadcrumbs if it is more than 2.0.0.20
* copy the mozilla-europe.org/products/firefox/2.0.0.10/* into mozilla-europe.org/products/firefox/2.0.0.11/*  
* copy mozilla-europe.org/products/firefox/2.0.0.10/* into mozilla-europe.org/products/firefox/2.0.0.11/*  
* create /bg/2.0.0.x/releasenotes folder and put the release notes from the previous en-GB version in it (bg is not a public language, we use it to provide diffs to localizers)
* create /bg/2.0.0.x/releasenotes folder and put the release notes from the previous en-GB version in it (bg is not a public language, we use it to provide diffs to localizers)
* get the final en-US release notes and commit the changes to /bg/2.0.0.x/releasenotes/
* get the final en-US release notes and commit the changes to /bg/2.0.0.x/releasenotes/
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