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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Create a new release of Mumble-Django.
+
+set -e
+set -u
+
+export HGPLAIN=t
+
+BASEDIR=`hg root`
+PYWEB="${BASEDIR}/pyweb"
+LASTTAG=`hg tags | grep -v tip | head -n1 | cut -d' ' -f1`
+
+cd "${PYWEB}"
+
+echo "Updating djExtDirect."
+wget -nv -N 'http://bitbucket.org/Svedrin/djextdirect/raw/tip/djextdirect.py'
+if hg status djextdirect.py | grep djextdirect.py > /dev/null; then
+    # looks like wget changed the file
+    hg commit djextdirect.py -m "Update djExtDirect"
+fi
+
+VERSIONSTR=`python -c 'import mumble; print mumble.version_str'`
+
+echo
+echo "Current version is ${VERSIONSTR}."
+
+if hg tags | grep "${VERSIONSTR}" > /dev/null; then
+    echo "Warning: Version string in Mumble module has not been updated."
+    echo "         Running vi so you can fix it in three, two, one."
+    sleep 3
+    MODFILE="${PYWEB}/mumble/__init__.py"
+    vi "$MODFILE" -c '/version ='
+    hg commit "$MODFILE" -m 'Bump version'
+fi
+
+HISTFILE=`tempfile`
+hg log -r "${LASTTAG}:tip" > "${HISTFILE}"
+vi -p "${HISTFILE}" "${BASEDIR}/CHANGELOG"
+rm "${HISTFILE}"
+
+VERSIONSTR=`python -c 'import mumble; print mumble.version_str'`
+
+echo "New version will be tagged ${VERSIONSTR}. If this is correct, hit enter to continue."
+read
+
+echo hg commit "${BASEDIR}/CHANGELOG" -m "Releasing ${VERSIONSTR}."
+echo hg tag "${VERSIONSTR}"
+echo hg push
+
+echo "You successfully released ${VERSIONSTR}!"
+