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Copy the source release artifacts to svn - https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/ranger
Create a final release tag in the release branch (${release-version})
Update the doc site with the release artifacts (use master branch to do this!) and push the changes in the master branch
In Apache JIRA admin, mark the release as complete and create a next version for tracking the changes to the next (major|minor) version
Update version number in master to next snapshot version
Update the pom.xml version to next SNAPSHOT ($ mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=<nextVersion>-SNAPSHOT)
push the changes to the release branch (e.g. ranger-0.6 for all ranger-0.6.* releases)
Update release data in https://reporter.apache.org/?ranger
If the release resolved any CVE,
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- Follow https://www.apache.org/security/committers.html for publishing the CVE