2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/maintainers/release-notes b/maintainers/release-notes
index c7a4e5074..477df31f1 100755
--- a/maintainers/release-notes
+++ b/maintainers/release-notes
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # This does double duty for
 # - including rl-next
 # - marking where to insert new links (right after)
-SUMMARY_MARKER_LINE='{{#include ./SUMMARY-rl-next.md}}'
+SUMMARY_MARKER_LINE='release-notes/rl-next.md'
 
 # --- LIB ---
 
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ if ! git diff --quiet --cached; then
   die "repo has staged changes, please commit or stash them"
 fi
 
-if ! grep "$SUMMARY_MARKER_LINE" doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in >/dev/null; then
+if ! grep -F "$SUMMARY_MARKER_LINE" doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md >/dev/null; then
   # would have been nice to catch this early, but won't be worth the extra infra
-  die "SUMMARY.md.in is missing the marker line '$SUMMARY_MARKER_LINE', which would be used for inserting a new release notes page. Please fix the script."
+  die "SUMMARY.md is missing the marker line '$SUMMARY_MARKER_LINE', which would be used for inserting a new release notes page. Please fix the script."
 fi
 
 if [[ ! -n "${VERSION:-}" ]]; then
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ if ! $IS_PATCH; then
   # find the marker line, insert new link after it
   escaped_marker="$(echo "$SUMMARY_MARKER_LINE" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g' -e 's/ /\\ /g')"
   escaped_line="$(echo "$NEW_SUMMARY_LINE" | sed -e 's/\//\\\//g' -e 's/ /\\ /g')"
-  logcmd sed -i -e "/$escaped_marker/a $escaped_line" doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in
+  logcmd sed -i -e "/$escaped_marker/a $escaped_line" doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md
 fi
 
 for f in doc/manual/rl-next/*.md; do
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ for f in doc/manual/rl-next/*.md; do
   fi
 done
 
-logcmd git add $file doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in
+logcmd git add $file doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md
 logcmd git status
 logcmd git commit -m "release notes: $version_full"
 
diff --git a/maintainers/release-process.md b/maintainers/release-process.md
index 5d68b2861..f2b60d8e7 100644
--- a/maintainers/release-process.md
+++ b/maintainers/release-process.md
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ release:
 
   ```console
   $ sed -e 's/officialRelease = false;/officialRelease = true;/' -i flake.nix
+  $ sed -e '/rl-next.md/ d' -i doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md
   ```
 
   This removes the link to `rl-next.md` from the manual and sets