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@@ -537,3 +537,9 @@ changelog to tor-talk or tor-announce.
(We might be moving to faster announcements, but don't announce until
the website is at least updated.)
+13) If it's a stable release, bump the version number in the maint-x.y.z
+ branch to "newversion-dev", and do a "merge -s ours" merge to avoid
+ taking that change into master. Do a similar 'merge -s theirs'
+ merge to get the change (and only that change) into release. (Some
+ of the build scripts require that maint merge cleanly into release.)
+