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Apologies for the late issue creation
Feature freeze June 5, 2025:
- Ensure all expiring language deprecations have been removed or given new removal dates.
- Create and merge version updating pull requests in Math/Stan/Cmdstan. These should be the last PRs accepted before the freeze.
- Create Math/Stan RC releases.
- Create Stanc3 RC binary.
- Create a release candidate tarball for x86. Make sure RC tarballs include stanc3 binaries.
- Check external links in docs (i.e. TBB docs link) - use https://github.com/tcort/markdown-link-check
- Create a release candidate feature/bugfix list (major features/bugfixes that need testing, link to new docs in Github)
- Run CmdStanR tests with the RC tarball.
- Run CmdStanPy tests with the RC tarball.
- Make a Discourse RC post.
- Post a tweet with a link to the Discourse RC post.
Release June 19?, 2025:
- Create the Math Release notes.
- Create the Stan Release notes.
- Create the Cmdstan Release notes.
- Create the Stanc3 Release notes, include new deprecations and removals.
- Rebuild and publish docs for the new version.
- Check that docs for the previous release links correctly to the newest docs.
- Create the Math release.
- Create the Stan release.
- Create the Stanc3 release.
- Create x86 CmdStan tarballs (check version, check that the extracted folder is in the cmdstan-version format).
- Create non-x86 CmdStan tarballs.
- Run CmdStanR tests with the release tarball.
- Make a Stan blog release announcement post (thank the sponsors and all contributors, mention new devs).
- Link to the blog post in a Discourse thread.
- Make a Twitter announcement.