From e947d9181770090679d9aa162aae927e74fda8a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diego Marquez <diegomarquezp@google.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 14:17:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] chore: add release-please config for protobuf-4.x

---
 release-please-config.json | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
index 340b223ff..7b0ab9461 100644
--- a/release-please-config.json
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
   "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
   "separate-pull-requests": true,
   "include-component-in-tag": true,
+  "prerelease-type": "rc1",
+  "versioning": "prerelease",
+  "release-type": "java-yoshi",
   "packages": {
     "dependencies": {
       "component": "dependencies",

From 1923a72169b207650d478e22f6db82ddd3af9c69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diegomarquezp <diegomarquezp@google.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 19:05:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] feat: configure rc releases to be on prerelease mode

---
 release-please-config.json | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
index 7b0ab9461..33545364d 100644
--- a/release-please-config.json
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@
     }
   },
   "bootstrap-sha": "6b9240114536a03b72929d5fade85599fbdbbdd0"
+,
+  "prerelease": true
 }

From 5949dbf8663bad770285a63e0dddba1a6a71ea86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diegomarquezp <diegomarquezp@google.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 21:05:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] fix: next release candidate


From 3daedc389f1cc0a98a997c6953159b52ad950ea9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diegomarquezp <diegomarquezp@google.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 16:28:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] chore: cleanup release-please config

- Remove redundant options already declared at the top level.\n- Remove bumpMinorPreMajor for repositories after the first major release.
---
 .github/release-please.yml | 32 ++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/release-please.yml b/.github/release-please.yml
index db54e9dfb..51fc4676a 100644
--- a/.github/release-please.yml
+++ b/.github/release-please.yml
@@ -1,23 +1,15 @@
 handleGHRelease: true
 manifest: true
 branches:
-  - bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-    handleGHRelease: true
-    packageName: gcp-lts-bom
-    manifest: true
-    branch: 9.0.x-lts
-  - bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-    handleGHRelease: true
-    packageName: gcp-lts-bom
-    manifest: true
-    branch: 8.0.x-lts
-  - bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-    handleGHRelease: true
-    packageName: gcp-lts-bom
-    manifest: true
-    branch: 7.0.x-lts
-  - bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-    handleGHRelease: true
-    packageName: gcp-lts-bom
-    manifest: true
-    branch: 6.0.x-lts
+    - bumpMinorPreMajor: true
+      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
+      branch: 9.0.x-lts
+    - bumpMinorPreMajor: true
+      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
+      branch: 8.0.x-lts
+    - bumpMinorPreMajor: true
+      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
+      branch: 7.0.x-lts
+    - bumpMinorPreMajor: true
+      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
+      branch: 6.0.x-lts

From 89cb3e9929e8eae9ce664deb4a5982f76ea88cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diegomarquezp <diegomarquezp@google.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 16:44:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] refactor: move common release-please options to top level

---
 .github/release-please.yml | 14 +++-----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/release-please.yml b/.github/release-please.yml
index 784b1be79..fa603d47e 100644
--- a/.github/release-please.yml
+++ b/.github/release-please.yml
@@ -1,19 +1,11 @@
 handleGHRelease: true
 manifest: true
+bumpMinorPreMajor: true
+packageName: gcp-lts-bom
 branches:
     - branch: 9.0.x-lts
-      bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
     - branch: 8.0.x-lts
-      bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
     - branch: 7.0.x-lts
-      bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
     - branch: 6.0.x-lts
-      bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
     - branch: protobuf-4.x-rc
-      bumpMinorPreMajor: true
-      packageName: gcp-lts-bom
-      releaseType: java-yoshi
\ No newline at end of file
+      releaseType: java-yoshi

From 72ec840c762f3d1a0f9759bca8f44b16c95775dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diegomarquezp <diegomarquezp@google.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 16:50:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] revert: revert changes to release-please-config.json

---
 release-please-config.json | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
index 33545364d..340b223ff 100644
--- a/release-please-config.json
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
   "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/release-please/main/schemas/config.json",
   "separate-pull-requests": true,
   "include-component-in-tag": true,
-  "prerelease-type": "rc1",
-  "versioning": "prerelease",
-  "release-type": "java-yoshi",
   "packages": {
     "dependencies": {
       "component": "dependencies",
@@ -17,6 +14,4 @@
     }
   },
   "bootstrap-sha": "6b9240114536a03b72929d5fade85599fbdbbdd0"
-,
-  "prerelease": true
 }