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Once you finalized the release, you now need to announce this to the world. 

1. Update https://pinot.apache.org/download page. Example pr: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pinot-site/pull/7
2. Update the Announcements on website
3. Send the mail to dev@pinot, general@incubator about the release announcement
   dev@pinot https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1b58323b12666bdd855e66cdb3cd72462ab2e86b7cba32757bdf7393@%3Cdev.pinot.apache.org%3E
   general@incubator https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3c1778095a992f8df08bf4774c1e1aea8e0e1914bdab02a90f582ac4@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E

Update

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master branch with the next release pom changes

Recall the step in which you typed mvn release:prepare. That step introduced two commits in your release branch. Now is the time you need to take the second commit (the one with the comment [maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration) and merge it back to the master.

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Reference

1. http://plc4x.apache.org/developers/release.html
2. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GOBBLIN/Release+Process

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