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Steps to a Successful Release

Add all items to NEWS
Update the contributors list in NEWS (meson compile -C build git-contrib)
Update the time and place in NEWS
[RC1] Update version and library numbers in meson.build
Check dbus docs with meson compile -C build man/update-dbus-docs
Tag the release: version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"
Do meson compile -C build
Make sure that the version string and package string match: build/systemctl --version
Upload the documentation: meson compile -C build doc-sync
[FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
"Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate.
Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically.
Update IRC topic (/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released)
[FINAL] Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: git push systemd-stable origin/master:master origin/master:refs/heads/${version}-stable, and change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches).