Tasks not to forget before release:

- Update ABOUT-NLS and doc/matrix.texi with information from Francois Pinard's
  Translation Project.

- Update config.guess and config.sub from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
  now from
    wget http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/config.guess?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
    wget http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/config.sub?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
- Update gettext-runtime/intl/locale.alias from glibc's intl/locale.alias.
- Update {gettext-tools/lib,gettext-runtime/intl}/{localcharset.h,localcharset.c,config.charset}
  from libcharset inside libiconv.

- Update -version-info arguments in gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.in.
  * increment LTV_REVISION,
  * if any functions/classes have been added, removed or changed, increment
    LTV_CURRENT and set LTV_REVISION to 0,
  * if any functions/classes have been added, increment LTV_AGE,
  * if backwards compatibility has been broken, set LTV_AGE to 0.

- Update Origin version in
    gettext-runtime/po/Makefile.in.in and
    gettext-tools/po/Makefile.in.in
  if these files have changed since the last release.

- Remove README-alpha from EXTRA_DIST in Makefile.am.

- Bump po-mode-version-string in gettext-tools/misc/po-mode.el.

- Bump version number and release date in version.sh.

- Verify that the C files generated from *.y files contain no absolute
  filenames.

- Update djgpp/*.

- Update gettext-tools/examples/*/LINGUAS and the file list in
  gettext-tools/examples/Makefile.am. Also
  "cd gettext-tools/examples/po; make update-po".

- Update
    NEWS
    autoconf-lib-link/NEWS
    gettext-runtime/libasprintf/NEWS
    gettext-runtime/NEWS

- "make"; "make dist"; "make distcheck"
- cd gettext-tools/misc; add-to-archive /somewhere/gettext-0.xx.yy.tar.gz
  Then update the table in autopoint.in.
- again: "make dist"