I'm not sure why you expected it to be included in the release given
that it wasn't even in testing at that point. You've done this before,
surely you understand that you have to get the tests working first?
the unit/regression tests (branch develop) are already executed for some weeks.
I assumed that the merge from develop to master will be 'automatically' done by the
release managers. I find it not easy to get the information what are the correct steps.
so, I ask you to merge the develop into master at least for the tests.