Specifically check for current hedgehog being on rope, the tricky bastard.
1. Fix broken trainings/missions
2. Update translations (check fireforge for patches)
3. Check copyright headers
4. Changelog
5. Turn debug stuff off (frontend console output)
6. Update message in game server, update check for client version
7. Make a branch
8. Make packages
9. Test packages
10. Upload (hedgewars.org, fireforge.net, gna.org (rsync --delete -avr --rsh="ssh" . unc0rr@download.gna.org:/upload/hedgewars))
11. Post news (hedgewars.org, hedgewars forum, fireforge.net, gna.org, happypenguin, etc.)
12. Make tag (svn copy svn+ssh://unc0rr@svn.fireforge.net/svnroot/hedgewars/branches/0.9.7 svn+ssh://unc0rr@svn.fireforge.net/svnroot/hedgewars/tags/0.9.7 -m "Tag for 0.9.7 release")