• Tag and release PYPI version [X.Y.Z]rc[K] following the contributing guide.
• Make sure all CI pipelines pass.

• Check the PyPI page
• Test pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K] and run a few MONAI modules locally
• Test all installation commands mentioned in the installation guide and the primary README.

The new PyPI release candidate should be checked against all the relevant repositories under Project-MONAI, for example, the tutorials repo:

• Run all Jupyter notebooks, replace pip install monai with pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K].
• File new tickets and create new pull requests to address any technical issues.
• Release a new candidate after addressing all the issues.
• Testing related repositories
  • MONAI unit and integration tests
  • MONAI tutorial tests (per file checklist https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/discussions/6603)
  • MONAILabel unit and integration tests
  • MONAI model zoo tests
  • QA regression tests

• Draft a release note on GitHub.
• Draft a release note with a pull request to modify the CHANGELOG.
• Create a pull request to highlight the features of the upcoming release, for example, in docs/source/highlights.md.
• Create a pull request to update the primary README.md.
• Update the monai.io website (https://github.com/Project-MONAI/project-monai.github.io).
• Check all the URLs in https://monai.io
• Check all the URLs in https://docs.monai.io.

• Tag and release PyPI version [X.Y.Z] following the contributing guide.
• Check the dockerhub auto-build by running docker pull projectmonai/monai:X.Y.Z and docker run ...
• Check jupyter lab/notebook in the docker container
• Check readme frontpage on dockerhub, pypi
• Update https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/dev/CITATION.cff
• Publish the release note on GitHub.
• Update the weekly-preview tagging https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/master/.github/workflows/weekly-preview.yml#L32
• Release the corresponding conda-forge version https://github.com/conda-forge/monai-feedstock

• Update https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/projects.

• remove any promised deprecated functionality