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docs: Update instructions to append rcN to release candidates
Changelog-None. Update doc/contribute-to-core-lightning/release-checklist.md Co-Authored-By: Alex Myers <[email protected]>
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2. Use `devtools/changelog.py` to collect the changelog entries from pull request commit messages and merge them into the manually maintained `CHANGELOG.md`. This does API queries to GitHub, which are severely
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ratelimited unless you use an API token: set the `GH_TOKEN` environment variable to a Personal Access Token from <https://github.com/settings/tokens>
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3. Create a new CHANGELOG.md heading to `v<VERSION>rc1`, and create a link at the bottom. Note that you should exactly copy the date and name format from a previous release, as the `build-release.sh` script relies on this.
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4. Update the package versions: `make update-versions NEW_VERSION=<VERSION>`
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4. Update the package versions: `make update-versions NEW_VERSION=<VERSION>rc1`
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5. Create a PR with the above.
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## Releasing -rc1
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## Releasing -rc2, ..., -rcN
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1. Update CHANGELOG.md by changing rc(N-1) to rcN. Update the changelog list with information from newly merged PRs also.
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2. Update the package versions: `make update-versions NEW_VERSION=<VERSION>`
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2. Update the package versions: `make update-versions NEW_VERSION=<VERSION>rcN`
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3. Add a PR with the rcN.
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4. Tag it `git pull && git tag -s v<VERSION>rcN && git push --tags`
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5. Draft a new `v<VERSION>rcN` pre-release on Github, upload reproducible builds, SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.asc.

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