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@@ -2,6 +2,22 @@
 
 The release process for AWX is completely automated as of version 19.5.0.
 
+## Get latest release version and list of new work
+
+1. Get latest version of [AWX](https://github.com/ansible/awx/releases)
+2. Get latest version of [AWX Operator](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases).
+3. [Compare](https://github.com/ansible/awx/compare) `latest` against `devel`
+
+![Comparing Branches](img/compare_release_branch.png)
+
+The page will automatically update with a list of PRs that are in `AWX/devel` but not in `latest`.
+
+![PR Compare List](img/pr_compare_list.png)
+
+Use this list of PRs to decide if this is a Y-stream (minor) release, or a Z-stream release (patch). Use [semver](https://semver.org/#summary) to help determine what kind of release is needed. Indicators of a Z-stream release:
+
+- No significant new features have been merged into devel since the last release.
+
 ## Staging the release
 
 To stage the release, maintainers of this repository can run the [Stage Release](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/.github/workflows/stage.yml) workflow. To start the workflow, follow this series of events:
@@ -9,9 +25,18 @@ To stage the release, maintainers of this repository can run the [Stage Release]
 1. Click "Actions" in the top nav bar on the repository
 2. Click "Stage Release" in the left nav menu
 3. Click the "Run workflow" dropdown
-4. Populate the inputs
+4. Populate the inputs.
 5. Click the "Run workflow" button
 
+If the latest release of `AWX` is 19.5.0:
+
+- Y-stream release version will be 19.6.0.
+- Z-stream release version will be 19.5.1.
+
+With very few exceptions the new `AWX Operator` release will always be a Y-stream release.
+
+## For AWX-Operator release version:
+
 ![Staging AWX](img/stage-release.png)
 
 This workflow will:
@@ -27,9 +52,9 @@ Once complete, navigate to the [Releases page](https://github.com/ansible/awx/re
 
 Next, click "Publish Release":
 
-
 ![Publish release](img/publish-release.png)
 
+This will not take long. Once this is complete go to [AWX-Operator release page](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases) to verify and then publish the draft release following the same steps as above.
 
 Once the release is published, another workflow called [Promote Release](https://github.com/ansible/awx/actions/workflows/promote.yml) will start running:
 
@@ -37,7 +62,6 @@ Once the release is published, another workflow called [Promote Release](https:/
 
 Once it finished, verify that the new image is present on the [Repository Tags](https://quay.io/repository/ansible/awx?tag=latest&tab=tags) on Quay:
 
-
 ![Verify released AWX image](img/verify-released-awx-image.png)
 
 Once the AWX image is live, go to the [Releases page for awx-operator](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/releases) and follow the same process to publish the release. Once published, the workflow [Promote AWX Operator image](https://github.com/ansible/awx-operator/actions/workflows/promote.yaml) will run.