1 Prepare release branches
2 Update provision.sh, formula and arvbox to point to release. Update the "Upgrading Arvados and Release notes" doc page (main and release branch).
3 Ensure that the entire automated testing pipeline is passing on Jenkins
6 Create next redmine release
7 Draft release notes and publish them to www-dev
10 Build RC arvados/jobs image
11 Ensure installer tests are passing
12 Build compute image & deploy RC packages to playground
13 Run bam-to-vcf demo pipeline
14 Approve RC for release
15 Build final release packages
16 Publish stable arvados/jobs Docker image
17 Push packages to stable
18 Publish Python and Ruby packages
21 Publish arvados/arvbox-demo image
23 Ensure doc.arvados.org has new version
24 Merge release notes (step 7) from "develop" to "main" on arvados.org
25 Send out release announcements
26 Major releases only: Copy "run-tests" jobs in jenkins
27 Add the release to zenodo.org