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