diff --git a/RELEASING.rst b/RELEASING.rst
index 9ff95be92..9ec2b069c 100644
--- a/RELEASING.rst
+++ b/RELEASING.rst
@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ Both automatic and manual processes described above follow the same steps from t
 
 #. Open a PR for ``cherry-pick-release`` and merge it once CI passes. No need to wait for approvals if there were no conflicts on the previous step.
 
+#. For major and minor releases, tag the release cherry-pick merge commit in master with
+   a dev tag for the next feature release::
+
+       git checkout master
+       git pull
+       git tag MAJOR.{MINOR+1}.0.dev0
+       git push git@github.com:pytest-dev/pytest.git MAJOR.{MINOR+1}.0.dev0
+
 #. Send an email announcement with the contents from::
 
      doc/en/announce/release-<VERSION>.rst