• cherry-pick relevant changes (bug corrections, complementary change regarding higher rate management) from master
• update project version in poms (4.1.0-SNAPSHOT)
• update upstreams dependencies
• update release notes cf https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/c/docs/+/93588

Once that done, the release must be staged in Jenkins and then officially released using the self-service process
https://docs.opendaylight.org/en/stable-silicon/release-process/project-release.html

This last task can only be performed when all upstreams dep are ready i.e. when all managed projects have been released (prevision date ???).
The deadline is one week after all managed projects have been released.

Evaluation indicators:

• cherry-picks from master done
• P stage release job OK in Jenkins
• tpce artifacts published on nexus