Release X.Y.Z - $MONTH $YEAR

[lawchingman]

Status of Bazel X.Y.Z

• Expected first release candidate date: [date]
• Expected release date: [date]
• List of release blockers

To report a release-blocking bug, please add a comment with the text @bazel-io flag to the issue. A release manager will triage it and add it to the milestone.

To cherry-pick a mainline commit into X.Y.Z, simply send a PR against the release-X.Y.Z branch.

Task list:

• Pick release baseline: [link to base commit]
• Create release candidate: X.Y.Zrc1
• Check downstream projects
• Create draft release announcement
• Send the release announcement PR for review: [link to bazel-blog PR]
• Push the release and notify package maintainers: [link to comment notifying package maintainers]
• Update the documentation
• Push the blog post: [link to blog post]
• Update the release page