Release Branches

Each major and minor releases (X.Y) should have a release branch named release-X.Y. This branch should diverge from main when the release is declared, after which point only bugfix PRs should be cherry-picked onto the branch. All other activity on main will go out with a subsequent major or minor release.

git checkout main
git pull --ff-only upstream main

git checkout -b release-X.Y
git push upstream release-X.Y

The branches are named release-X.Y to distinguish them from point-in-time tags, which are named vX.Y.Z.