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There are a few pages in the documentation that need to be reviewed and updated for each release.
- Ensure that there exists a release notes page for each non-bugfix release (e.g., 1.5.0) in
./docs/release-notes
/, that it is up-to-date, and linked from the start page of the documentation. - Upgrading Applications and Flink Versions: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/ops/upgrading.html
- please extend this list.
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Adjust any of the above properties to the improve clarity and presentation of the Release Notes.
Ensure that the JIRA release notes are also included in the release notes of the documentation (see section "Review and update documentation").
Verify that a Release Build Works
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Major or otherwise important releases should have a blog post. Write one if needed for this particular release. Minor releases that don’t introduce new major functionality don’t necessarily need to be blogged.
Please make sure that the release notes of the documentation (see section "Review and update documentation") are linked from the blog post of a major release.
Social media
Tweet, post on Facebook, LinkedIn, and other platforms. Ask other contributors to do the same.
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