Prepare release branches Update provision.sh, formula and arvbox to point to release. Update the "Upgrading Arvados and Release notes" doc page (main and release branch). Ensure that the entire automated testing pipeline is passing on Jenkins Manual testing Review release branch Create next redmine release Draft release notes and publish them to www-dev Review release notes Build RC packages Build RC arvados/jobs image Test installer Build compute image & deploy RC packages to playground Run bam-to-vcf pipeline pipeline Approve RC for release Build final release packages Push packages to stable Publish arvados/jobs Docker image Publish Python and Ruby packages Publish Java package Publish R package Publish arvados/arvbox-demo image Tag commits Update doc site Merge release notes (step 6) form "develop" to "main" and publish release on arvados.org Send out release notification Major releases only: Copy "run-tests" jobs in jenkins