The point of this document is to describe all steps required to make a proper release of the libu2f-server project.
Make sure your working environment is up to date. Confirm with: git checkout master && git pull && git diff.
Make sure the version number in configure.ac has been incremented in AC_INIT.
Make sure the libtool shared library version has been incremented properly, see http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Versioning.html Always increment LT_REVISION on every release — it makes it possible to have multiple releases installed concurrently which helps testing.
Make sure NEWS describes all changes since the last release. Use https://github.com/Yubico/libu2f-server/commits/master to review. Running make distcheck will also produce a Changelog file.
Change the (unreleased) part in NEWS to (released 20XX-YY-ZZ) and commit that with a note Version Q.P.
Run make release.
Increment version number in configure.ac and add a NEWS template for the next release.