Release HeuristicLab 3.3.9

[swagner]

New Features:

• CMAES
• Improved Hive Server Performance
• Improved GP interpreter performance
• Export of symbolic regression/classification solutions to Excel
• A new problem for the optimization of trading rules
• A lot of bug fixes and minor improvements

Release Steps:

Trunk:

1. Increment plugin and application versions
2. Update versions in plugin dependencies
3. Increment assembly file versions
4. Check and if necessary update year of copyrights
5. Check and if necessary update build configurations and project dependencies
6. Check if all unit tests are passed
7. Update samples
8. Create release tag

Release tag:

1. Remove plugins which are not part of the release
2. Update target path in CustomPostBuildTemplate_UpdateLocalInstallation.cmd in project HeuristicLab-3.3
3. Build configuration Release Any CPU
4. Check if it compiles with mono
5. Remove unnecessary files from build output (*.vshost.exe, *.vshost.exe.config, *.vshost.exe.manifest, *.pdb, *.dll.config, app.config)
6. Hide HeuristicLab 3.3.exe.config
7. Create zip file

Trac:

1. Attach zip file to Download wiki page
2. Update wiki pages Download, DevelopersManual?, UsersFeatures?, ChangeLog, etc. (download button for current version is always called HL-Download.png)
3. Create new milestone for the next release
4. Update version in all tickets of the current milestone which are ready to release
5. Close all tickets of the current milestone which are ready to release
6. Change description of the current milestone into changelog style
7. Complete current milestone and retarget all its remaining open tickets
8. Update default version in the trac Admin module

Deployment Server:

1. Upload plugins
2. Update products
3. Test update of previous version
   These steps are not required for HeuristicLab 3.3.x anymore, as we have some fundamental problems with the update service (see #1743 and #1891).

Documentation:

1. Update tutorial slides (latest version, number of plugins, algorithms and problems, features)

Marketing and PR:

1. Post info about new release on HEAL homepage, ​HeuristicLab Facebook fan page and LinkedIn
2. Write a release announcement for the Blog and send a mail to our mailing list
3. Inform everybody else who might be interested