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1. Create a [DISCUSS] thread on dev@daffodil.apache.org to make a decision as a community if the timing is correct for a release and what open issues should be resolved for a release. Ensure there is at leas 72 hours for discussion before moving forward.
     
2. Upon agreement, someone should volunteer to be the "Release Manager" to take the responsibility to prepare the release candidate.
     

3. Prior to creating the release candidate, the version setting in build.sbt should contain the -SNAPSHOT keyword, and the references to Daffodil jars in daffodil-cli/bin. LICENSE and daffodil-cli/bin.NOTICE files should match that version. Create and merge a pull request to remove this -SNAPSHOT keyword in preparation for a non-snapshot release. Make updates the bin.LICENSE and bin.NOTICE files if necessary.  
   

Creating a Release Candidate

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