- Make sure to keep the values in configure.ac and src/clientversion.h the same. The variables are prefixed wth an underscore in configure.ac
- Run ./contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh, commit + push results
- PROTIP: Man page creation must be done after updating the version number and recompiling and before Debian package creation
- Update checkpoints in src/chainparams.cpp via contrib/checkpoints.pl
- Update checkpoints in src/chainparams.cpp via util/checkpoints.pl
- checkpoints.pl will just generate the data you need, it must be manually copied into the correct place
- Checkpoint are a list of block heights and block hashes that tell a full node the correct block history of the blockchain
- Checkpoints make block verification a bit faster, because nodes can say "is this block a descendant of a checkpoint block" instead of doing full consensus checks, which take more time