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+Release checklist for areaDetector
+
+- Make sure the epics_ad_view.sav file in /usr/local/idl_user/imaging is
+up-to-date
+- Run "update_files" from the Viewers/IDL directory
+- Make sure that documentation/areaDetectorDoc.html and
+areaDetectorReleaseNotes.html have everything for this release, including the
+date.
+- Check in everything to BCDA CVS and SourceForge SVN repositories
+- Do "make clean uninstall", "make" on Linux/vxWorks, Windows and Cygwin
+- Run "make clean", "make" in the documentation directory
+- Run "makeADStandaloneTar from the top-level areaDetector directory
+- Run "make_tar_file areaDetector RX-YY" from the devel directory