The following steps have to be followed to create a new Elastica Release

• Open a pull request with the release planned in in changes.txt on top
• For minor or major releases, update the branch-alias in the composer.json file
• Verify that all the builds on Travis are green for the current version
• Copy all the changes since the last release from CHANGELOG.md and format that they are properly formatted
• Copy Dependencies for README.md
• Prepare new empty fields for next release in CHANGELOG.md by adding the Unreleased title and the following sub titles: Backward Compatibility Breaks, Bugfixes, Added, Improvements, Deprecated
• Merge pull request
• Set the proper tag and title (Release X.X.X) for the release
• Go to Github Release page and “Draft a new release”
• Publish the release
• Update Elastica.io
  • Create a release post on Elastica.io with the changes and download link (rake new_post['Release X.X.X'])
  • Update the Releases page with the newest release: http://elastica.io/releases/
  • Build the newest API doc with ant phpdoc and copy it to the source/api folder
• Update Docker Hub Tags for elasticsearch-elastica and elastica repository: https://hub.docker.com/u/ruflin/
• Announce the release on the Elastica Google Group
• Announce the release on Twitter