Add note that one the patches after branching should
pin the container to the current LTS version so the
CI on that branch remains stable as long as possible.

Signed-off-by: Ales Musil <amu...@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/internals/release-process.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst 
b/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst
index ec79fe48c..26d3f8d4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst
+++ b/Documentation/internals/release-process.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ Scheduling`_ for the timing of each stage:
    branch.  Features to be added to release branches should be limited in scope
    and risk and discussed on ovs-dev before creating the branch.
 
+   In order to keep the CI stable on the new release branch, the Ubuntu
+   container should be pinned to the current LTS version in the Dockerfile
+   e.g. registry.hub.docker.com/library/ubuntu:22.04.
+
 3. When committers come to rough consensus that the release is ready, they
    release the .0 release on its branch, e.g. 25.09.0 for branch-25.09.  To
    make the actual release, a committer pushes a signed tag named, e.g.
-- 
2.42.0

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