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+# Releases
+This page describes the release process and the currently planned schedule for upcoming releases as well as the respective release shepherd. Release shepherds are chosen on a voluntary basis.
+
+## Release Schedule
+
+Release cadence of first pre-releases being cut is 12 weeks.
+
+| release series | date (year-month-day) | release shepherd              |
+|----------------|-----------------------|-------------------------------|
+| v0.26          | 2023-08-23            | Josh Abreu (Github: @gotjosh) |
+| v0.27          | 2023-11-01            | Josh Abreu (Github: @gotjosh) |
+
+If you are interested in volunteering please create a pull request against the [prometheus/alertmanager](https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager) repository and propose yourself for the release of your choice.
+
+If you'd like to know more about the shepherd responsibilities or the release instructions please [refer to the `RELEASE.MD`](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/RELEASE.md) in [prometheus/prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus).