4.23 Releng

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Tracks the release engineering activities for the 4.22 release.

Opening actions

• [x] Update version numbers
• [ ] Set 4.23 Milestone release date
• [ ] Create 4.23 Milestone

Release day - 7

• [ ] Announce new release pending in discussions
• [ ] Revisit all open tasks

Release candidate (Milestone) - Windows Test

• [ ] BIRT 4.23 All-In-One designer
• [ ] BIRT 4.23 runtime
• [ ] BIRT 4.23 runtime OSGi

Release candidate (Milestone) - Linux Test

• [ ] BIRT 4.23 All-In-One designer
• [ ] BIRT 4.23 runtime
• [ ] BIRT 4.23 runtime OSGi

Release

• [ ] Eclipse Release (put link here)
• [ ] Github Release (Creates Tag and Announcement in Discussions) (put link here)
• [ ] Release to Maven Central (put link here)
• [ ] Update README.MD
• [ ] Update 4.23 Release in Project Administration
• [ ] Create 4.24 Release in Project Administration
• [ ] Create 4.24 Releng Issue
• [ ] Move 4.23 open issues to 4.24
• [ ] Close 4.23 Milestone

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Align schedule with SimRel:

• https://eclipse.dev/simrel/?file=wiki/SimRel/2026-03.md