Prepare

Once you have completed all of the tickets for the new version (which could take several sprints) and you have merged all pull requests (PRs) for these tickets, you're ready to create a release branch. This branch acts as a container for all changes that should be released for this version as well as any last minute bug fixes that need to be made before the release is finalized.

Create Release Branch

First of all, you'll need to checkout the develop branch and make sure you have all of the latest changes.
```
git checkout develop
git pull --rebase
```

Create new release branch off develop

git checkout -b release/x.y.z
git push --set-upstream origin release/x.y.z

Change version number in application.properties
```
app.version=x.y.z
```

Commit version change

git commit -am "bumped app version to x.y.z"

Configure Continuous Integration

Go to Linked Repositories
Select openboxes-release
Change the Branch to release/x.y.z

Change Release Branch

Bamboo should automatically trigger a build for OBNAVSTAGE, but if that doesn't happen within a few minutes just go to the build plan page and trigger it manually. http://bamboo.pih-emr.org:8085/browse/OPENBOXES-SDONS