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Update release process and procedure documentation #628

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Addresses #626

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Update the release process page based on current state of releases.

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Add reference to #486 to the process.

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Read through this the other day, and as a 'new' contributor, I found the 'our release cycle is super fast better keep up' to be very intimidating. So, these edits are both a positive change and seems to reflect the reality of how things are currently done.


The latest release candidate can be installed with
The latest prerelease (alpha or release candidate) can be installed with:

`python -m pip install --pre napari`
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The command can be problematic, because it installs all dependencies as --pre as well, which can lead to errors, see napari/napari#7707 (comment)

I think it's worth adding a note here.

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@psobolewskiPhD psobolewskiPhD added this to the 0.6.0 milestone Mar 25, 2025
@jni jni merged commit bd63014 into napari:main Mar 28, 2025
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@willingc willingc deleted the release-process branch March 31, 2025 19:56
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