Use when cutting a kornia-rs release or pre-release (rc) — bumps the workspace version, updates CHANGELOG.md (moving [Unreleased] into a dated section and referencing the previous release), opens the release PR, and triggers the crates.io / wheel publish workflows. Trigger on "cut a release", "prepare a release", "pre-release", "publish to crates.io", "bump version".
2026-07-07