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Update version numbers
Upgrade the Loki version to the new release version in documents, examples, jsonnets, etc.
Before you begin
Determine the VERSION_PREFIX.
Skip this step if you are doing a patch release on old release branch.
Example: Latest release branch is
release-2.9.x
but you are releasing patch version inrelease-2.8.x
(or older)
Steps
Upgrade the versions in the
release-VERSION_PREFIX
branch.Example commands:
LOKI_NEW_VERSION=$VERSION ./tools/release_update_tags.sh
Note:
Do not upgrade the version numbers in the `operator/` directory as @periklis and team have a different process to upgrade the Operator version.
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