Release 1.6.1 Checklist
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Since Sep 17, 2026.
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Checklist
Release a candidate version
- Tag and release PYPI version [X.Y.Z]rc[K] following the contributing guide, need to manually make the release in the absence of an automated pipeline.
- Make sure all CI pipelines pass.
Verify the new PyPI release
- Check the PyPI page
- Test
pip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K]and run a few MONAI modules locally - Test all installation commands mentioned in the installation guide and the primary README.
Quality assurance for the relevant repos
The new PyPI release candidate should be checked against all the relevant repositories under Project-MONAI, for example, the tutorials repo:
- Run all Jupyter notebooks, replace
pip install monaiwithpip install monai==[X.Y.Z]rc[K]. - File new tickets and create new pull requests to address any technical issues.
- Release a new candidate after addressing all the issues.
- Testing related repositories
- MONAI unit and integration tests
- MONAI tutorial tests
- MONAILabel unit and integration tests
- MONAI model zoo tests
- QA regression tests
Prepare documentation
- Draft a release note on GitHub.
- Draft a release note with a pull request to modify the CHANGELOG.
- (?) Create a pull request to highlight the features of the upcoming release, for example, in
docs/source/highlights.rst. - (?) Create a pull request to update the primary README.md.
- Update the
project-monai.github.iowebsite (https://github.com/Project-MONAI/project-monai.github.io). - Check all the URLs in
https://project-monai.github.io - Check all the URLs in
https://monai.readthedocs.io/en/stable/.
Release a milestone version
- Tag and release PyPI version [X.Y.Z] following the contributing guide.
- Manually build a new Docker image for the release and push to Dockerhub
- Check the dockerhub auto-build by running
docker pull projectmonai/monai:X.Y.Zanddocker run ... - Check jupyter lab/notebook in the docker container
- Check readme frontpage on dockerhub, pypi
- Update https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/dev/CITATION.cff
- Publish the release note on GitHub.
- Update the weekly-preview tagging https://github.com/Project-MONAI/MONAI/blob/dev/.github/workflows/weekly-preview.yml#L86
- Release the corresponding conda-forge version https://github.com/conda-forge/monai-feedstock
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