diff --git a/.github/workflows/crowdin_upload_strings.yml b/.github/workflows/crowdin_upload_strings.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d719dbdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/crowdin_upload_strings.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+name: Crowdin - Upload strings
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - V3/develop
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    if: github.repository == 'Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.8'
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        curl https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/GPG-KEY-crowdin | sudo apt-key add -
+        echo "deb https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/deb/ /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
+        sudo apt-get update -qq
+        sudo apt-get install -y crowdin
+        pip install redgettext==3.3
+    - name: Generate source files
+      run: |
+        make gettext
+    - name: Upload source files
+      run: |
+        make upload_translations
+      env:
+        CROWDIN_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.crowdin_token}}
+        CROWDIN_PROJECT_ID: ${{ secrets.crowdin_identifier }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/prepare_release.yml b/.github/workflows/prepare_release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0492fb714
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/prepare_release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+name: Prepare release
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      new_stable_version:
+        description: Version number for the new stable release (leave empty to just strip `.dev1`)
+        required: false
+        default: 'auto'
+
+jobs:
+  crowdin_download_translations:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          curl https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/GPG-KEY-crowdin | sudo apt-key add -
+          echo "deb https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/deb/ /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
+          sudo apt-get update -qq
+          sudo apt-get install -y crowdin
+
+      - name: Download translations
+        run: |
+          make download_translations
+        env:
+          CROWDIN_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.crowdin_token}}
+          CROWDIN_PROJECT_ID: ${{ secrets.crowdin_identifier }}
+
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        id: cpr_crowdin
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v3
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          commit-message: Automated Crowdin downstream
+          title: "[i18n] Automated Crowdin downstream"
+          body: |
+            This is an automated PR.
+            Please ensure that there are no errors or invalid files are in the PR.
+          labels: "Automated PR, Category: i18n, Changelog Entry: Skipped"
+          branch: "automated/i18n"
+          author: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
+
+      - name: Close and reopen the PR with different token to trigger CI
+        uses: actions/github-script@v3
+        env:
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ steps.cpr_crowdin.outputs.pull-request-number }}
+          PR_OPERATION: ${{ steps.cpr_crowdin.outputs.pull-request-operation }}
+        with:
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.cogcreators_bot_repo_scoped }}
+          script: |
+            const script = require(
+              `${process.env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.github/workflows/scripts/close_and_reopen_pr.js`
+            );
+            console.log(script({github, context}));
+
+  pr_stable_bump:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      # Checkout repository and install Python
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      # Create PR for stable version bump
+      - name: Update Red version number from input
+        id: bump_version_stable
+        run: |
+          python .github/workflows/scripts/bump_version.py
+        env:
+          PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}:${{ env.PYTHONPATH }}
+          NEW_STABLE_VERSION: ${{ github.event.inputs.new_stable_version }}
+
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        id: cpr_bump_stable
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v3
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          commit-message: Version bump to ${{ steps.bump_version_stable.outputs.new_version }}
+          title: Version bump to ${{ steps.bump_version_stable.outputs.new_version }}
+          body: |
+            This is an automated PR.
+            Please ensure that there are no errors or invalid files are in the PR.
+          labels: "Automated PR, Changelog Entry: Skipped"
+          branch: "automated/pr_bumps/${{ steps.bump_version_stable.outputs.new_version }}"
+          author: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
+
+      - name: Close and reopen the PR with different token to trigger CI
+        uses: actions/github-script@v3
+        env:
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ steps.cpr_bump_stable.outputs.pull-request-number }}
+          PR_OPERATION: ${{ steps.cpr_bump_stable.outputs.pull-request-operation }}
+        with:
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.cogcreators_bot_repo_scoped }}
+          script: |
+            const script = require(
+              `${process.env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.github/workflows/scripts/close_and_reopen_pr.js`
+            );
+            console.log(await script({github, context}));
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish_crowdin.yml b/.github/workflows/publish_crowdin.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d95c52a0e..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/publish_crowdin.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-name: Publish to Crowdin
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 12 * * THU'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  repository_dispatch:
-    types: crowdin
-
-env:
-  CROWDIN_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.crowdin_token}}
-  CROWDIN_PROJECT_ID: ${{ secrets.crowdin_identifier }}
-
-jobs:
-  deploy:
-    if: github.repository == 'Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-    - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.8'
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: |
-        curl https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/GPG-KEY-crowdin | sudo apt-key add -
-        echo "deb https://artifacts.crowdin.com/repo/deb/ /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
-        sudo apt-get update -qq
-        sudo apt-get install -y crowdin
-        pip install redgettext==3.3
-    - name: Generate source files
-      run: |
-        make gettext
-    - name: Upload source files
-      run: |
-        make upload_translations
-    - name: Download translations
-      run: |
-        make download_translations
-    - name: Create Pull Request
-      uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v3
-      with:
-        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        commit-message: Automated Crowdin downstream
-        title: "[i18n] Automated Crowdin downstream"
-        body: |
-          This is an automated PR.
-          Please ensure that there are no errors or invalid files are in the PR.
-        labels: "Automated PR, Category: i18n, Changelog Entry: Skipped"
-        branch: "automated/i18n"
-        author: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish_pypi.yml b/.github/workflows/publish_pypi.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a2f7c224..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/publish_pypi.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-name: Publish to PyPI
-on:
-  push:
-    tags:
-     - "*"
-
-jobs:
-  deploy:
-    if: github.repository == 'Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
-    - name: Set up Python
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
-      with:
-        python-version: '3.8'
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        pip install setuptools wheel twine
-    - name: Build and publish
-      env:
-        TWINE_USERNAME: __token__
-        TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.pypi_token }}
-      run: |
-        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
-        twine upload dist/*
diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish_release.yml b/.github/workflows/publish_release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c6e8431c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish_release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+name: Publish the release
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "*"
+
+jobs:
+  release_to_pypi:
+    if: github.repository == 'Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install setuptools wheel twine
+      - name: Build and publish
+        env:
+          TWINE_USERNAME: __token__
+          TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.pypi_token }}
+        run: |
+          python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+          twine upload dist/*
+
+  pr_dev_bump:
+    needs: release_to_pypi
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      # Version bump to development version
+      - name: Update Red version number to dev
+        id: bump_version_dev
+        run: |
+          python .github/workflows/scripts/bump_version.py
+        env:
+          PYTHONPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}:${{ env.PYTHONPATH }}
+          DEV_BUMP: '1'
+
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        id: cpr_bump_dev
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v3
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          commit-message: Version bump to ${{ steps.bump_version_dev.outputs.new_version }}
+          title: Version bump to ${{ steps.bump_version_dev.outputs.new_version }}
+          body: |
+            This is an automated PR.
+            Please ensure that there are no errors or invalid files are in the PR.
+          labels: "Automated PR, Changelog Entry: Skipped"
+          branch: "automated/pr_bumps/${{ steps.bump_version_dev.outputs.new_version }}"
+          author: github-actions[bot] <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
+
+      - name: Close and reopen the PR with different token to trigger CI
+        uses: actions/github-script@v3
+        env:
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ steps.cpr_bump_dev.outputs.pull-request-number }}
+          PR_OPERATION: ${{ steps.cpr_bump_dev.outputs.pull-request-operation }}
+        with:
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.cogcreators_bot_repo_scoped }}
+          script: |
+            const script = require(
+              `${process.env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/.github/workflows/scripts/close_and_reopen_pr.js`
+            );
+            console.log(await script({github, context}));
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/bump_version.py b/.github/workflows/scripts/bump_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b6d1d98d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/bump_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+from typing import Match
+
+import redbot
+
+
+version_info = None
+
+
+def repl(match: Match[str]) -> str:
+    global version_info
+
+    new_stable_version = os.environ.get("NEW_STABLE_VERSION", "auto")
+    if new_stable_version == "auto":
+        version_info = redbot.VersionInfo.from_str(match.group("version"))
+        version_info.dev_release = None
+    else:
+        version_info = redbot.VersionInfo.from_str(new_stable_version)
+
+    if int(os.environ.get("DEV_BUMP", 0)):
+        version_info.micro += 1
+        version_info.dev_release = 1
+
+    return f'__version__ = "{version_info}"'
+
+
+with open("redbot/__init__.py", encoding="utf-8") as fp:
+    new_contents, found = re.subn(
+        pattern=r'^__version__ = "(?P<version>[^"]*)"$',
+        repl=repl,
+        string=fp.read(),
+        count=1,
+        flags=re.MULTILINE,
+    )
+
+if not found:
+    print("Couldn't find `__version__` line!")
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+with open("redbot/__init__.py", "w", encoding="utf-8", newline="\n") as fp:
+    fp.write(new_contents)
+
+print(f"::set-output name=new_version::{version_info}")
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/close_and_reopen_pr.js b/.github/workflows/scripts/close_and_reopen_pr.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..25dc25123
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/close_and_reopen_pr.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+module.exports = (async function ({github, context}) {
+    const pr_number = process.env.PR_NUMBER;
+    const pr_operation = process.env.PR_OPERATION;
+    let sleep_time = 0;
+
+    if (!['created', 'updated'].includes(pr_operation)) {
+        console.log('PR was not created as there were no changes.')
+        return;
+    }
+
+    for (const new_state of ['closed', 'open']) {
+        // some sleep time needed to make sure API handles open after close
+        if (sleep_time)
+            await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, sleep_time));
+
+        github.issues.update({
+            issue_number: pr_number,
+            owner: context.repo.owner,
+            repo: context.repo.repo,
+            state: new_state
+        });
+
+        sleep_time = 2000;
+    }
+})