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+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+# run hack/release.sh from the project root directory to publish the release
+DOCS_DIR="../docs"
+
+echo "check status of last commit build"
+commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+check_status=$(curl https://api.github.com/repos/kubeovn/kube-ovn/commits/$commit/check-runs)
+if ! echo $check_status | grep -q '"conclusion": "failure"'; then
+    echo "last commit build successed"
+else
+    echo "last commit build failed"
+fi
+
+
+echo "tag and push image"
+VERSION=$(cat VERSION)
+set +e
+docker manifest rm kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}
+docker manifest rm kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION}
+set -e
+
+docker pull kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-x86
+docker pull kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-arm
+docker pull kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION}-x86
+docker pull kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION}-arm
+docker pull kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-debug-x86
+docker pull kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-debug-arm
+
+docker manifest create kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION} kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-x86 kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-arm
+docker manifest create kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION} kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION}-x86 kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION}-arm
+docker manifest create kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-debug kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-debug-x86 kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-debug-arm
+
+docker manifest push kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}
+docker manifest push kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION}
+docker manifest push kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-debug
+
+echo "modify tag in install.sh and values.yaml"
+sed -i '/^VERSION=/c\VERSION="'"${VERSION}"'"' dist/images/install.sh
+sed -i 's/tag:\ .*/tag:\ '"${VERSION}"'/' kubeovn-helm/values.yaml
+sed -i 's/version:\ .*/version:\ '"${VERSION}"'/' kubeovn-helm/Chart.yaml
+sed -i 's/appVersion:\ .*/appVersion:\ "'"${VERSION#v}"'"/' kubeovn-helm/Chart.yaml
+
+echo "commit, tag and push"
+git add dist/images/install.sh
+git add kubeovn-helm/values.yaml
+git add kubeovn-helm/Chart.yaml
+git commit -m "release ${VERSION}"
+git tag ${VERSION}
+git push
+git push origin --tags
+
+echo "modify version to next patch number"
+NEXT_VERSION=$(cat VERSION | awk -F '.' '{print $1"."$2"."$3+1}')
+echo ${NEXT_VERSION} > VERSION
+git add VERSION
+git commit -m "prepare for next release"
+git push
+
+echo "trigger action to build new base"
+gh workflow run build-kube-ovn-base.yaml -f branch=release-1.11
+
+echo "Modify the doc version number manually"
+cd ${DOCS_DIR}
+git checkout v1.11
+git pull
+sed -i "s/version: .*/version: ${VERSION}/" mkdocs.yml
+git add mkdocs.yml
+git commit -m "update version to ${VERSION}"
+git push
+
+echo "clean up images"
+docker rmi kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-x86 kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-arm kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION}-x86 kubeovn/vpc-nat-gateway:${VERSION}-arm kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-debug-x86 kubeovn/kube-ovn:${VERSION}-debug-arm
+
+echo "Manually update the release note with the new changelog"
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