-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).
+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
-Manual testing
Review release branch
-Create next redmine release
Draft release notes and publish them to www-dev
Review release notes
+Create next redmine release
Build RC packages
Build RC arvados/jobs image
-Test installer
-Deploy RC packages to playground
-Run bam-to-vcf pipeline pipeline
+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 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
+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