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Releasing Grafana Loki

This document is a series of instructions for core Grafana Loki maintainers to be able to publish a new Grafana Loki release.

Release stable version

1. Create release branch
2. Backport commits
3. Prepare Release notes
4. Prepare Changelog
5. Document Metrics and Configurations changes
6. Prepare Upgrade guide
7. Update version numbers
8. Tag Release
9. Publish Release

Release patched version

1. Backport commits
2. Prepare Release notes
3. Prepare Changelog
4. Document Metrics and Configurations changes
5. Prepare Upgrade guide
6. Update version numbers
7. Tag Release
8. Publish Release

Release security patched version

1. Patch vulnerabilities
2. Backport commits
3. Prepare release notes
4. Prepare changelog
5. Update version numbers
6. Tag release
7. Publish release