#22990 2.31.0 release management Issue created by cburroughs 2.31.0 will be the next 'major', following 2.30 on 2025-12-10 2.30 branched in 2025-W45; 6 weeks after that is 2025-W51 aka the week of 2025-12-15. But with the end of the year holidays none of that needs to track precisely. • Create Milestone • Bug Triage! • Prepare Release Notes • Blog Post • Additional RCs as needed; nudge testing in productive testing; various applications of human judgement under conditions of uncertainty. • Actually do the release! • Update Example Repos • Update schema store (https://www.pantsbuild.org/prerelease/docs/contributions/releases/release-process#step-5-publish-a-schema-in-json-schema-store) • Ensure there's a "2.32.0 release management issue" like this one, for the next release pantsbuild/pants