New release tasks checklist - reyandme/kam_remake GitHub Wiki

During regular development

These tasks should be taken care of long before Release Candidate.

game balance changes (of military units) for new release should be agreed upon very early - testing single- and multiplayer balance takes a very long time and is subject to heated discussions
gathering maps (SP, MP), which were created or modified during beta cycle. The point is to do as much work as possible, but late fixes can land until RC/final versions, as map updates are low risk.
prepare a "human readable" changelog - a basis for later newspost for kamremake.com (and for the video). It should include the most important changes from a player's point of view.

Recommendation: code freeze - only accept bugfixes and features for stuff that players really care about
Recommendation: quality control - every important fix/feature should be tested by a player who knows the game's behaviour well - to avoid waiting for the release to catch bugs.

Check bug reports (in CrashReporter), pay extra attention to MP desync reports. Make sure there are no widespread bugs in the release. Minor or rare bugs are okay.
Update scripting wiki (autogenerated with ScriptingParser)
Check game for memory leaks (with FastMM)

Last call for translators: Installer, Readme in .md files and game texts
Last minute MP, SP map updates
Prepare release announcement draft
Prepare release banner, which will be used for advertising on socials (see past kamremake.com newsposts for inspiration)
Optional (when there's a volunteer and the release is a major one): prepare release video, detailing the most important (and visually pleasing) changes

Update changelog in todo\Changelog xxx.txt
Make a pre-RC build and test it
Change the NetProtocol revision (to be sure there are no hard to track issues with it, resulting from different server/client net code)
Make DedicatedServer and other utils available separately on kamremake.com
Consider releasing update (patch) installer from previous version
Add lobby message for new version on Master Server
Post release announcement, promote it on socials (Fb, Reddit, etc.)