3.25.0 release tracker

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Expected branching: TBD

Known blockers

• In the future release, deps does not load package dependencies transitively #15511: decide how to handle the changed transitive (package) dependency behavior before release.
• Restore the OxCaml trunk reverse-dependency job to green.
• Merge all 3.24.x changelogs into main: [3.24.1] release #15539
• Run the Mirage workflow manually on an alpha release.

Preparation

• Confirm the blocker list and branch go/no-go.
• Create 3.25.0-rc from main, open the draft release PR, and ensure all CI jobs pass.
• Work through the minor release process.
  Alpha release PRs into opam-repository:
  • alpha1: TBD
• Triage alpha failures against 3.24.1 and add any regressions above.

Release

• Prepare and merge the 3.25.0 changelog.
• Publish the 3.25.0 opam-repository PR: TBD
• Complete release go/no-go and publish 3.25.0.

Post-release

• Merge the release branch into main.
• Write a post about the release on Discuss: TBD
• Open a PR announcing the release on ocaml.org: TBD
• Store the revdeps errors as HTML.
  • Reverse-dependencies CI logs
• Increase the development version of Dune to the next minor version:
  • CI workflow
  • dune-project
  • dune-rpc
• Close the 3.25.0 milestone and this tracking issue.