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Tasks not to forget before release:

- Update ABOUT-NLS and doc/matrix.texi with information from the Translation
  Project, by running run.sh in gettext-runtime/doc/Admin/.

- Update config.guess and config.sub from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
  now from
    wget 'http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess'
    wget 'http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub'
- Update gettext-runtime/intl/locale.alias from glibc's intl/locale.alias.
- Update gettext-runtime/intl/{localcharset.h,localcharset.c,config.charset}
  from libcharset inside libiconv.
  Check that gnulib/lib/{localcharset.h,localcharset.c,config.charset}
  agrees with it, except for copyright header changes.

- Update the version numbers in
    gettext-runtime/m4/po.m4
    gettext-runtime/po/Makefile.in.in
    gettext-tools/po/Makefile.in.in
    gettext-runtime/intl/libgnuintl.h.in
    gettext-tools/libgettextpo/gettext-po.h.in

- 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.

- Update -version-info arguments in gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.in
  and in gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am.
  * 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.

- 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

- Add an entry to all the ChangeLogs
  except gettext-tools/examples/hello-c++-kde/admin/ChangeLog.

- "make"; "make dist"; "make distcheck"
- Commit all the files in gnulib.
- Update the version number and commit identifier in autogen.sh.
- cd gettext-tools/misc
  cp archive.tar.gz-<last-release-number> archive.tar.gz
  add-to-archive /somewhere/gettext-0.xx.yy.tar.gz
  Then update the case statement and the table in autopoint.in.
- Swap the first 4 lines of gettext-tools/doc/gettext.info, working around
  a bug in makeinfo-4.11.
- again: "make dist"

* Upload to ftp-upload.gnu.org according to the procedure given by
  Bradley M. Kuhn on 2003-11-11.

- Tag the repository, using a simple tag and optionally a branch tag.