release v1.9.1 preparation (#820)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 
 This is a feature release:
 
- * Built-in support for Mac OSX M1 / arm64.
+ * Schema Registry support for Avro [Generic](examples/avro_generic_producer_example) and [Specific](examples/avro_specific_producer_example), [Protocol Buffers](examples/protobuf_producer_example) and [JSON Schema](examples/json_producer_example). (@rayokota, #776).
+ * Built-in support for Mac OSX M1 / arm64. (#818).
 
 
 confluent-kafka-go is based on librdkafka v1.9.1, see the

kafka/README.md

@@ -62,23 +62,12 @@ these tags should be specified on the **application** build/get/install command.
 
 
 
-## Generating HTML documentation
-
-To generate one-page HTML documentation run the mk/doc-gen.py script from the
-top-level directory. This script requires the beautifulsoup4 Python package.
-
-```
-$ source .../your/virtualenv/bin/activate
-$ pip install beautifulsoup4
-...
-$ make -f mk/Makefile docs
-```
-
-
 ## Release process
 
 For each release candidate and final release, perform the following steps:
 
+### Review the CHANGELOG
+
 ### Update bundle to latest librdkafka
 
 See instructions in [kafka/librdkafka/README.md](kafka/librdkafka/README.md).
@@ -100,6 +89,19 @@ Update generated error codes:
     # Verify by building
 
 
+## Generating HTML documentation
+
+To generate one-page HTML documentation run the mk/doc-gen.py script from the
+top-level directory. This script requires the beautifulsoup4 Python package.
+
+```
+$ source .../your/virtualenv/bin/activate
+$ pip install beautifulsoup4
+...
+$ make -f mk/Makefile docs
+```
+
+
 ### Rebuild everything
 
     $ go clean -i ./...
@@ -145,3 +147,5 @@ Put the new version in settings.sh of these two repos
 https://github.com/confluentinc/docs
 
 https://github.com/confluentinc/docs-platform
+
+### Don't forget tweeting it!