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Add a section to the Major Releases section of the release guide
to cover updating the list of expected files for the promotion tool.

PR-URL: #40470
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <bgriggs@redhat.com>
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commits may be listed as notable changes on a case-by-case basis. Use your
judgment there.

### Update the expected assets

The promotion script does a basic check that the expected files are present.
Open a pull request in the Build repository to add the list of expected files
for the new release line as a new file, `v{N}.x` (where `{N}` is the major
version of the release), in the [expected assets][] folder. The change will
need to be deployed onto the web server by a member of the [build-infra team][]
before the release is promoted.

### Snap

The Node.js [Snap][] package has a "default" for installs where the user hasn't
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[Node.js Snap management repository]: https://github.com/nodejs/snap
[Partner Communities]: https://github.com/nodejs/community-committee/blob/HEAD/governance/PARTNER_COMMUNITIES.md
[Snap]: https://snapcraft.io/node
[build-infra team]: https://github.com/orgs/nodejs/teams/build-infra
[expected assets]: https://github.com/nodejs/build/tree/HEAD/ansible/www-standalone/tools/promote/expected_assets
[nodejs.org release-post.js script]: https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org/blob/HEAD/scripts/release-post.js
[nodejs.org repository]: https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org

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