Release v5.10.0 🚀

[kellylee-gds]

What

Release a new version of GOV.UK Frontend with the latest changes we've built.

Why

So people can use this new version

Who needs to work on this

Technical writer, content designer, developers, delivery managers

Who needs to review this

Technical writers, Developers, team leads

Done when

Comms preparation

• Ideation and drafts

GOV.UK Frontend

• Feature branch: brand refresh

Design System site

• Guidance changes to Header, Footer, Service navigation and Cookie Banner components (plus WCAG 2.2 callouts retirement to those components)
• Update examples for Header, Footer, Service navigation and Cookie banner components
• Update 'What's new' section
• Update 'Roadmap' section

Frontend docs

N/A - planned for cycle 18

Comms

• Send Slack comms
• Send mailing list comms

Logistics

• Ensure issues published in the release are gathered in a GitHub milestone
• 🔑 Ensure that relevant access tokens are up to date
• Verify that decisions are appropriately documented (in code/issues/pull request comments or in separate documents linked from issues/pull requests)
• Update state of published issues on project board
• Close published issues when appropriate
• Open any follow-up issues if necessary