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1. Bulk update Jira to unassign from this release all issues that are open non-blockers and send follow-up notification to the developer list that this was done.
2. run 'ant rat' to and examine the generated report for any files, specially .java files should be having apache license headers. Add the license header to any file that is missing it (open a jira and submit a patch).
3. Update copyright date in NOTICE . If the components mentioned in them have updated version, you would need to update the copyright dates for those.

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