A Release Announcement is made. A Release Announcement is made with the result of the evaluation. The code is checked for left over debug output. The CVS HEAD branch is tagged All parts are free to modify again. A Release Announcement is made which is also published on the KDE news-page .
Translations can finalize and packagers can start to prepare themselves.
A Release Announcement is made if the next step is delayed. It should not have changed much since the previous step. The tarballs of the release are made available to the packagers. The translators are informed as well. The FTP-mirror maintainers are informed about the upcoming release and the mirrors.html file is updated.