1. Create a [pull request](https://github.com/apache/apisix/commit/7db31a1a7186b966bc0f066539d4de8011871012) (contains the changelog and version change) to master
> The changelog only needs to provide a link to the minor branch.
2. Create a [pull request](https://github.com/apache/apisix/commit/21d7673c6e8ff995677456cdebc8ded5afbb3d0a) (contains the backport commits, and the change in step 1) to minor branch
> This should include those PRs that contain the `need backport` tag since the last patch release. Also, the title of these PRs need to be added to the changelog of the minor branch.
> After executing the `VERSION=x.y.z make release-src` command, the content of the vote email will be automatically generated in the `./release` directory named `apache-apisix-${x.y.z}-vote-contents`
10. Update [APISIX's website](https://github.com/apache/apisix-website/commit/f9104bdca50015722ab6e3714bbcd2d17e5c5bb3) if the version number is the largest
> Go to [apisix-build-tools](https://github.com/api7/apisix-build-tools) repository and create a new tag named `apisix-${x.y.z}` to automatically submit the
package to yum repo
12. Update [APISIX docker](https://github.com/apache/apisix-docker/commit/829d45559c303bea7edde5bebe9fcf4938071601) in [APISIX docker repository](https://github.com/apache/apisix-docker), and create new branch from master, named as `release/apisix-${version}`, e.g. `release/apisix-2.10.2`
13. Update [APISIX helm chart](https://github.com/apache/apisix-helm-chart/pull/234) if the version number is the largest
14. Send the [ANNOUNCE email](https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree7b06e6eac854fd42ba4f302079661a172f514a92aca2ef2f1aa7bb%40%3Cdev.apisix.apache.org%3E) to dev@apisix.apache.org & announce@apache.org
1. Create a minor branch, and create [pull request](https://github.com/apache/apisix/commit/bc6ddf51f15e41fffea6c5bd7d01da9838142b66) to master branch from it
> After executing the `VERSION=x.y.z make release-src` command, the content of the vote email will be automatically generated in the `./release` directory named `apache-apisix-${x.y.z}-vote-contents`
> Go to [apisix-build-tools](https://github.com/api7/apisix-build-tools) repository and create a new tag named `apisix-${x.y.z}` to automatically submit the rpm package to yum repo
11. Update [APISIX docker](https://github.com/apache/apisix-docker/commit/829d45559c303bea7edde5bebe9fcf4938071601) in [APISIX docker repository](https://github.com/apache/apisix-docker), and create new branch from master, named as `release/apisix-${version}`, e.g. `release/apisix-2.10.2`