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r2.1 of release management repository (version 0.3.0-rc.1)

CHANGELOG.md

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 ## Table of Contents
 
+- **[r2.1](#r21)**
 - **[r1.2](#r12)**
 - **[r1.1](#r11)**
 
-# r1.2 - public release
+# r2.1
+
+## Release Notes
+
+**This is the pre-release of the Release Management documents for use in the Spring25 meta-release with version v0.3.0-rc.1.**
+
+It describes the processes and artifacts for use in the Release Management of the Spring25 meta-release. It includes the feedback from the Fall24 meta-release.
+
+### Changed
+* update api release guidelines by @tanjadegroot in https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/pull/118
+* updates to API readiness checklist by @tanjadegroot in https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/pull/116
+* Update changelog template & example by @tanjadegroot in https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/pull/117
+
+**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/compare/r1.2...r2.1
+
+
+# r1.2
 
 ## Release Notes
 

README.md

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 ## Release Process Information
 
-**The first public release of the Release Management documents with version v0.2.0 is availalbe in [r1.2](https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/releases/tag/r1.2)**
+**The Release Management documents describes the processes and the repository provides the artifacts for use by API Sub projects to release an API version.**
 
-It describes the processes and artifacts for use in the Release Management of the Fall24 meta-release.
-
-It contains the Release Management approved documents in the **documentation** folder:
-   - [API_Release_Guidelines.md](https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/blob/r1.2/documentation/API_Release_Guidelines.md) - An extract of the API Release Management process from the CAMARA wiki.
-   - [API-Readiness-Checklist.md](https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/blob/r1.2/documentation/API-Readiness-Checklist.md) - The checklist to ensure release readiness of the API according to its release type (alpha, release-candidate, public).
-   - [CHANGELOG_TEMPLATE.md](https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/blob/r1.2/documentation/CHANGELOG_TEMPLATE.md) - The template for creating CHANGELOG history of an API repository.
+It contains the Release Management released documents and assests in the **documentation** folder:
+   - [API_Release_Guidelines.md](/documentation/API_Release_Guidelines.md) - An extract of the API release management process from the CAMARA wiki.
+   - [API-Readiness-Checklist.md](/documentation/API-Readiness-Checklist.md) - The checklist to ensure release readiness of the API according to its version (alpha, release-candidate, public).
+   - [CHANGELOG_TEMPLATE.md](/documentation/CHANGELOG_TEMPLATE.md) - The template for creating CHANGELOG history of an API repository.
 
 It also contains the following in the **documentation/SupportingDocuments** folder:
-   - [CHANGELOG_EXAMPLE.md](https://github.com/camaraproject/ReleaseManagement/blob/r1.2/documentation/SupportingDocuments/CHANGELOG_EXAMPLE.md) - An example of the content of a CHANGELOG.md over multiple releases created following the Release Management guidelines.
+   - [CHANGELOG_EXAMPLE.md](/documentation/SupportingDocuments/CHANGELOG_EXAMPLE.md) - Pointers to example CHANGELOG.md files over multiple releases created following the release management guidelines.
+
+For the reference documentation on API versioning, please see Chapter 5 in the API Design Guidelines document in [Commonalities](https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities).
 
-For the reference documentation on API versioning please see Chapter 5 within the API Design Guidelines document in [Commonalities](https://github.com/camaraproject/Commonalities/).
+The [CHANGELOG.md](/CHANGELOG.md) file describes the differences between releases of the Release Management repository.  
 
 ## Release Management Wiki
 

VERSION.yaml

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-version: 0.2.0
+version: 0.3.0-rc.1