Prepare release branch
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
Test installer
Deploy RC packages to playground
Run bam-to-vcf pipeline pipeline
Approve RC for release
Build final release packages
Push packages to stable
Publish docker image, python and ruby packages
Publish formula/installer for release
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