release 6.2.0

IPython/core/release.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 b' _version_minor = 2'
 _version_patch = 0
 _version_extra = '.dev'
 # _version_extra = 'rc2'
-# _version_extra = ''  # Uncomment this for full releases
+_version_extra = ''  # Uncomment this for full releases
 
 # Construct full version string from these.
 _ver = [_version_major, _version_minor, _version_patch]

tools/build_release

@@ -15,6 +15,10 b' def build_release():'
     # Load release info
     execfile(pjoin('IPython', 'core', 'release.py'), globals())
 
+    with open('docs/source/whatsnew/index.rst') as f:
+        if '   development' in f.read():
+            raise ValueError("Please remove `development` from what's new toctree for release")
+
     # Cleanup
     for d in ['build', 'dist', pjoin('docs', 'build'), pjoin('docs', 'dist'),
               pjoin('docs', 'source', 'api', 'generated')]: