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 * `test`
 * `task`
 * `subtask`
+* `release`
 
 Every branch must contain *issue ID* which is important to automatically fire some hooks to track the commit in the related GitHub repository issues and pull requests and is **required to contribute to a project**.
 
+A `release` branch is used to prepare a new [tagged](#tags) release version.
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