• Ensure all milestoned issues/PRs are closed, or reassign to new milestone
• Verify good test results; run tests in browsers which failed some tests:
  • for main:
    • Node tests: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/actions/workflows/node.js.yml?query=branch%3Amain
    • BrowserStack tests: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/actions/workflows/browserstack.yml?query=branch%3Amain
  • for 3.x-stable:
    • Node tests: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/actions/workflows/node.js.yml?query=branch%3A3.x-stable
    • BrowserStack tests: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/actions/workflows/browserstack.yml?query=branch%3A3.x-stable
• If this is a 3.x release, run the full test suite manually on BrowserStack Live on the following browsers which no longer work properly in CI:
  • iOS 10
  • iOS 7
• Run any release-only tests, such as those in the test/integration folder.
• Make sure latest GitHub CI build for the relevant is green; if not, restart a job or run npm test locally to verify.
• Ensure AUTHORS.txt file is up to date (jquery-release will abort otherwise)
  • Run the check: npm run authors:check; if it succeeds, you can skip the next sub-steps
  • Look for bad names/emails and update .mailmap using real data from CLA sheet if needed
  • Run npm run authors:update to update AUTHORS.txt
• Create draft blog post on blog.jquery.com; save the link, it will be needed during the jquery-release process
  • Highlight major changes and reason for release
  • Add contributor list generated in the below release script
  • Add changelog generated in the below release script
• Do release using instructions at jquery-release project README
  • Be sure to clone a CLEAN copy, don't reuse
  • Target something other than jquery/jquery (like your own fork) for a dry run
• Verify that files were created correctly by jquery-release
  • jquery-VER.js, jquery-VER.min.js, jquery-VER.min.map
  • jquery.js, jquery.min.js, jquery.min.map
  • googlecdn-jquery-VER.zip
• Publish post on http://blog.jquery.com
• Add a link to the blog post and a short description of the release to GitHub releases.
• Post the release on Mastodon and Twitter.

== Stable releases only ==

• Close the milestone matching the current release: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/milestones
• Update jQuery on https://github.com/jquery/jquery-wp-content
• Update jQuery on https://github.com/jquery/blog.jquery.com-theme
• Update latest jQuery version for healthyweb.org.
• Update the shipping version on https://jquery.com home page

git pull jquery/jquery.com
# Edit index.html and download.md
git commit
npm version patch
git push origin main --tags

• Email hosted-libraries@google for Google CDN
  • Send googlecdn-jquery-a.b.c.zip via a dropbox link