release process: Use release candidates #34051
Draft
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Based on #33983, so only look at the last commit.
The goal is to always release the .0 patch version, and have release candidates before that. For example:
v26.0.0-dev.0 -> v26.0.0-rc.1 -> v26.0.0-rc.2 -> v26.0.0 released.
Checklist
$T ⇔ Proto$Tmapping (possibly in a backwards-incompatible way), then it is tagged with aT-protolabel.