1. Check copyright headers
2. Changelog
3. Make a branch
4. Make packages
5. Test packages
6. Upload (hedgewars.org, fireforge.net, gna.org)
7. Post news (hedgewars.org, fireforge.net, gna.org, etc.)
8. 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")