In general, each stable release of Straw should deliver progress and no regressions in:

• stability and quality
• features
• standards and platform compliance
• desirability to users

1. Before a release

• testing
• English language and translations
• migration function for all user data from the previous versions
• feedback from distro package maintainers

2. Releasing

• increment version number in code and documentation
• publish a tarball
• update wiki, web site, rss feed, blog