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1. Make sure all unit and integration tests are passing.
2. Follow the classic and karaf instructions to update the licenses of source and binary dependencies. For step 5 of the the karaf version (create a temporary pom.xml), the following template can be used:

   <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>foo</groupId>
    <artifactId>bar</artifactId>
    <version>baz</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
   
    <dependencies>
        <!-- paste dependencies generated in step 4 -->
    </dependencies>
   </project>
   

3. Update the release notes. To help in the process list merged PRs after a ceratin date.