Merge #8621

8621: feat: make sure nightly regressions don't break users r=lnicola a=matklad



Co-authored-by: Aleksey Kladov <[email protected]>

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diff --git a/docs/dev/README.md b/docs/dev/README.md
index 7e4488a41..b98ac4c0a 100644
--- a/docs/dev/README.md
+++ b/docs/dev/README.md
@@ -229,7 +229,11 @@ If it fails because of something that needs to be fixed, remove the release tag
 Make sure to remove the new changelog post created when running `cargo xtask release` a second time.
 
 We release "nightly" every night automatically and promote the latest nightly to "stable" manually, every week.
+
 We don't do "patch" releases, unless something truly egregious comes up.
+To do a patch release, cherry-pick the fix on top of the current `release` branch and push the branch.
+There's no need to write a changelog for a patch release, it's OK to include the notes about the fix into the next weekly one.
+Note: we tag releases by dates, releasing a patch release on the same day should work (by overwriting a tag), but I am not 100% sure.
 
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