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The Release-Guidelines.md file will be created from the below after the review.

Releasing an API step by step 

1. Create a GitHub issue defining the scope of the targeted API release. Descriptive information in this issue can be reused in the changelog/release notes. All discussions wrt to this release shall be handled through this issue.
2. Create the API release tracker for the target API version as describer here: API release tracking process.
3. On the main branch, develop the API scope in a "work-in-progress mode" (API version = wip and version in URL is vwip).
   • during development and test, make sure to create and record the required release assets according to the API-Readiness-Checklist file
4. Once the required stability is reached, create the "release PR" (see details here: API Release Process (extract for Commonalities) CreatethereleasePR

5. Manage the "release PR" approval, merge the approved "release PR" and create the release

   • • An API release is created using the GitHub release feature.
     • The release name shall be the same as the release tag and shall have the following format: rx.y
     • The x.y number shall follow the release numbering scheme: API Release Process (extract for Commonalities) APIreleasenumbering
     • Outside the project the release name shall be the API name (for definition see API versioning#APIname) combined with the release number e.g. qod rx.y

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