8 make sure buildbot is green
9 make sure debs got built and uploaded properly
10 make sure a sumo sdist tarball got built and uploaded properly
-11 send out relnotes.txt: tahoe-announce@lists.allmydata.org, tahoe-dev@lists.allmydata.org, p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com, lwn@lwn.net, cap-talk@mail.eros-os.org, cryptography@metzdown.com, twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, duplicity-talk@nongnu.org, news@phoronix.com, python-list@python.org, cygwin@cygwin.com, linked in cloud storage group, The Boulder Linux Users' Group, cryptopp-users@googlegroups.com, the "decentralization" group on groups.yahoo.com, andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk
+11 send out relnotes.txt: tahoe-announce@lists.allmydata.org, tahoe-dev@lists.allmydata.org, p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com, lwn@lwn.net, cap-talk@mail.eros-os.org, cryptography@metzdown.com, twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, duplicity-talk@nongnu.org, news@phoronix.com, python-list@python.org, cygwin@cygwin.com, linked in cloud storage group, The Boulder Linux Users' Group, cryptopp-users@googlegroups.com, the "decentralization" group on groups.yahoo.com, andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk, tiddlywiki, hadoop, bzr, the cloud computing group on google, bacula mailing list, amanda?
12 update Wiki: front page news, news, old news, parade of release notes
13 update hacktahoe.org
14 update "current version" information and make an "announcement of new release" on freshmeat