Script might well override a static map, but can't risk it not doing it, and preview completely failing. Better to just not try it for static maps. Some script cfg might help. Could also avoid unnnecessary preview regenerations even if the script was doing nothing at all.
1. Fix broken trainings/missions
2. Update translations (check fireforge for patches)
3. Check copyright headers
4. Changelog
5. Turn debug stuff off (frontend console output)
6. Update message in game server, update check for client version
7. Make a branch
8. Make packages
9. Test packages
10. Upload (hedgewars.org, fireforge.net, gna.org (rsync --delete -avr --rsh="ssh" . unc0rr@download.gna.org:/upload/hedgewars))
11. Post news (hedgewars.org, hedgewars forum, fireforge.net, gna.org, happypenguin, etc.)
12. Make tag (svn copy svn+ssh://unc0rr@svn.fireforge.net/svnroot/hedgewars/branches/0.9.7 svn+ssh://unc0rr@svn.fireforge.net/svnroot/hedgewars/tags/0.9.7 -m "Tag for 0.9.7 release")