diff --git a/.gitlab/issue_templates/Release.md b/.gitlab/issue_templates/Release.md
index d9fb8f30aa..26d7a0c76a 100644
--- a/.gitlab/issue_templates/Release.md
+++ b/.gitlab/issue_templates/Release.md
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
  - [ ] ***(SwEng)*** Push tags for the published releases to the public repository.
  - [ ] ***(QA)*** For each maintained branch, update the `BIND_BASELINE_VERSION` variable for the `abi-check` job in `.gitlab-ci.yml` to the latest published BIND version tag for a given branch.
  - [ ] ***(QA)*** Prepare empty release notes for the next set of releases.
+ - [ ] ***(QA)*** Sanitize all confidential issues assigned to the release milestone and make them public.
  - [ ] ***(QA)*** Update QA tools used in GitLab CI (e.g. Flake8, PyLint) by modifying the relevant `Dockerfile`.
 
 [^1]: If not, use the time remaining until the tagging deadline to ensure all outstanding issues are either resolved or moved to a different milestone.