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229Make sure to remove the new changelog post created when running `cargo xtask release` a second time. 229Make sure to remove the new changelog post created when running `cargo xtask release` a second time.
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231We release "nightly" every night automatically and promote the latest nightly to "stable" manually, every week. 231We release "nightly" every night automatically and promote the latest nightly to "stable" manually, every week.
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232We don't do "patch" releases, unless something truly egregious comes up. 233We don't do "patch" releases, unless something truly egregious comes up.
234To do a patch release, cherry-pick the fix on top of the current `release` branch and push the branch.
235There'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.
236Note: 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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234## Permissions 238## Permissions
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