uence of activities takes place as quickly as possible:</p><ul><li><p>Changes are merged from the private GitHub repository holding the fix into the appropriate set of public
branches.</p></li><li><p>Release engineers ensure all necessary binaries are promptly built and published.</p></li><li><p>Once the binaries are available, an announcement is sent out on the following channels:</p><ul><li>The <a href=/v1.11/blog>Istio blog</a></li><li>The <a href=https://discuss.istio.io/c/announcements>Announcements</a