Release: 3.1.0 Milestone 1

[KyleAure]

We should publish a 3.1.0-M1 release to test to process after migration from OSSRH.

If there are any PRs are issues you want to make sure go into an M1 release please comment below.

• feat: add issue template for releases #391

Prepare

• Open this issue.
• Complete outstanding work
• Update TCK Signatures to capture API changes

Stage release

• Build and stage artifacts to staging repository
• Pull and stage the TCK distribution artifact to download.eclipse.org
• Update this issue with a comment that links to the staged artifacts and the generated GitHub branch and tag
• Create a draft release on GitHub

Verify and modify

• Ask for feedback from the community to verify the staged artifact has all the expected changes.
• If anything needs to be added before publishing do that now and repeat the Stage Release section

Publish release

• Publish staged artifacts to the public repository
• Publish staged TCK distribution artifact to download.eclipse.org
• Update this issue with a comment that links to the published artifacts and the generated GitHub branch and tag
• Modify the draft release on GitHub to be pre-release or latest

Follow up

• Email a Jakarta steering committee member to promote the TCK Distribution publically
• Create pull request to https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications
  • upload generated specification documentation
• Update versions in non-build files, such as:
  Documentation:
  • README.adoc

[KyleAure]

Draft release: https://github.com/jakartaee/jsonb-api/releases/edit/untagged-4904836945ce6ac778b6
Staged release here: https://repo.eclipse.org/#browse/browse:jsonb-maven2-staging:jakarta%2Fjson%2Fbind%2Fjakarta.json.bind-api%2F3.1.0-M1%2Fjakarta.json.bind-api-3.1.0-M1.jar

[KyleAure]

Release: https://github.com/jakartaee/jsonb-api/releases/tag/3.1.0-M1
Published API: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/jakarta/json/bind/jakarta.json.bind-api/3.1.0-M1/