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Expand Up @@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ To release a new version of pybind11:
- Add release date in ``docs/changelog.rst``.
- ``git add`` and ``git commit``, ``git push``. **Ensure CI passes**. (If it
fails due to a known flake issue, either ignore or restart CI.)
- Add a release branch if this is a new minor version
- ``git checkout -b vX.Y``, ``git push -u origin vX.Y``
- Add a release branch if this is a new minor version, or update the existing release branch if it is a patch version
- New branch: ``git checkout -b vX.Y``, ``git push -u origin vX.Y``
- Update branch: ``git checkout vX.Y``, ``git merge <release branch>``, ``git push``
- Update tags (optional; if you skip this, the GitHub release makes a
non-annotated tag for you)
- ``git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m 'vX.Y.Z release'``.
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