Adding upstream version 255.4.upstream/255.4

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+title: Steps to a Successful Release
+category: Contributing
+layout: default
+SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+---
+
+# Steps to a Successful Release
+
+1. Add all items to NEWS
+2. Update the contributors list in NEWS (`ninja -C build git-contrib`)
+3. Update the time and place in NEWS
+4. Update hwdb (`ninja -C build update-hwdb`, `ninja -C build update-hwdb-autosuspend`, commit separately).
+5. Update syscall numbers (`ninja -C build update-syscall-tables update-syscall-header`).
+6. [RC1] Update version and library numbers in `meson.build`
+7. Check dbus docs with `ninja -C build update-dbus-docs`
+8. Update translation strings (`cd build`, `meson compile systemd-pot`, `meson compile systemd-update-po`) - drop the header comments from `systemd.pot` + re-add SPDX before committing. If the only change in a file is the 'POT-Creation-Date' field, then ignore that file.
+9. Tag the release: `version=vXXX-rcY && git tag -s "${version}" -m "systemd ${version}"`
+10. Do `ninja -C build`
+11. Make sure that the version string and package string match: `build/systemctl --version`
+12. [FINAL] Close the github milestone and open a new one (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/milestones)
+13. "Draft" a new release on github (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/new), mark "This is a pre-release" if appropriate.
+14. Check that announcement to systemd-devel, with a copy&paste from NEWS, was sent. This should happen automatically.
+15. Update IRC topic (`/msg chanserv TOPIC #systemd Version NNN released | Online resources https://systemd.io/`)
+16. Push commits to stable, create an empty -stable branch: `git push systemd-stable --atomic origin/main:main origin/main:refs/heads/${version}-stable`.
+17. Build and upload the documentation (on the -stable branch): `ninja -C build doc-sync`
+18. [FINAL] Change the default branch to latest release (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/branches).
+19. [FINAL] Change the Github Pages branch in the stable repository to the newly created branch (https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/settings/pages) and set the 'Custom domain' to 'systemd.io'