**Prerequisites**

* Devkit [https://github.com/opf/openproject-devkit](https://github.com/opf/openproject-devkit)

**Steps**

For example, you're trying to release OpenProject 13.0.  You will need to create a release branch release/13.0 from current dev branch. Assuming that dev branch is at 13.0.0 version, the following command.

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You might be likely to create the release branch days before the actual release. Ensure that the release branch exists before continuing with the release, since it is the source of the release that gets built.

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End of the deletion * Begin of the insertion[x]End of the insertion Begin of the deletion [ ]End of the deletion Bump `dev` branch afterwards to the next minor/major release (Prevents invalid translations on crowdin)
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