diff --git a/website/www/site/content/en/contribute/release-guide.md b/website/www/site/content/en/contribute/release-guide.md
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--- a/website/www/site/content/en/contribute/release-guide.md
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@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ all major features and bug fixes, and all known issues.
 
 1. Maven artifacts deployed to the staging repository of [repository.apache.org](https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/)
 1. Source distribution deployed to the dev repository of [dist.apache.org](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/beam/)
-1. Website pull request proposed to list the [release](/get-started/downloads/), publish the [Java API reference manual](https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/), and publish the [Python API reference manual](https://beam.apache.org/releases/pydoc/).
+1. Website pull request proposed to list the [release](https://beam.apache.org/get-started/downloads/), publish the [Java API reference manual](https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/), and publish the [Python API reference manual](https://beam.apache.org/releases/pydoc/).
 1. Docker images are published to [DockerHub](https://hub.docker.com/search?q=apache%2Fbeam&type=image) with tags: {RELEASE}_rc{RC_NUM}.
 
 You can (optionally) also do additional verification by: