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`user.signingKey` values to use with your local PHP repositories. See
[Conditional Includes For Git Config][] for more information.

11. Any time you see a placeholder like `php-X.Y.ZRCn`, the `RCn` is not always
a release candidate number. The placeholder could also represent any of:
* php-8.4.0alpha1 (initial alpha version)
* php-8.4.0beta2 (one of the beta versions)
* php-8.4.0 (initial GA)
* php-8.4.9 (periodic bugfix or security release)


## Packaging a non-stable release (alpha/beta/RC)

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```shell
git add -p
git commit --gpg-sign=YOURKEYID -m "[ci skip] Update NEWS for PHP X.Y.Z alpha2"
git commit --gpg-sign=YOURKEYID -m "[ci skip] Update NEWS for PHP X.Y.0 alpha2"
```

The NEWS is updated at the *start* of the cycle for the next tag, e.g.
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```shell
git push upstream php-X.Y.ZRCn # tag name
git push upstream PHP-X.Y.Z # patch-level version branch (post-GA only)
git push upstream PHP-X.Y # version branch
git push upstream PHP-X.Y # version branch (post-branch creation only)
git push upstream master # version branch (pre-branch creation only)
```

> 🚨 **Attention** \
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