After experimenting with a long running average at maxed out FPS and a variety of map sizes, 128 seems to actually be a good size to use if only drawing bits of world with stuff in it. 64 actually did even better in some situations, but significantly worse in others (lots of land, zoomed out).
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")