Release management

This guide contains the instructions for performing release management task.

Create release announcements

Release announcements should be published in the About Drupal blog for important and milestone releases, specifically:

Creating a new Drupal core development branch

Instructions for creating a new git branch for Drupal core development and configuring it on Drupal.org.

Creating a new Drupal core release

This guide explains how to create a regular release of Drupal core. For instructions on creating a security release, see Creating a Drupal

Creating a Drupal core security release

Creating a Drupal core security release

Scheduled pipelines

How to setup the scheduled pipelines on GitLab.

Writing release notes for Drupal core releases

Formatting, content, and process guidelines for release notes of core releases

Set release dates

How to set the date for each release milestone.

Creating a stub branch

Instructions for creating a stub branch for the next major version.

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