heads up releasers (@happy-kitchen-89482, @hundreds-father-404, @average-vr-56795, @enough-analyst-54434): there have been two changes to the release docs in 2.11.x: 1. you’ll want to auth to the github API if you haven’t already 2. the special cases around

rc0

now apply to a new release type:

a

(alpha) releases. the strategy and process pages have been updated.