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Once our commits have been cherry picked, we can tag the most head of our branch as the new release
git tag v1.69.3
Once we have the branch that we intend to build ready to push up we should ensure that the unit tests at least run successfully to get more confidence our backport branch does not have issues
Tags are simply pointers to commits, so now that our tag is created, push it to GitHub for tracking and in case we have a future backport to create.
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