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+# Releasing Gitea
+
+
+Release procedure is as follows:
+
+- Let $vmaj, $vmin and $vpat be Major, Minor and Patch version numbers
+- Drop "dev" suffix from $vpat
+- Let $ver be "$vmaj.$vmin.$vpat"
+- Make sure Version variable is set correctly in main.go ($ver)
+- Compile CHANGELOG.md section for $ver
+  (please only include user-relevant changes, and be concise)
+- Commit and push the changelog on both `master` and `release/v$vmaj.$vmin`
+- Create PR for changelog
+- `git tag -a v$ver`
+- If this is a .0 release:
+  - `git branch release/v$vmaj.$vmin`
+  - Update Version in new branch ( vpat++ )
+- Update Version in master branch ( vmin++; vpat=0-dev )
+- Push the branches and tags (`git push --tags`)
+  - No need to create the Release. CI does that automatically.
+- Send PR to https://github.com/go-gitea/blog announcing the release
+- Update latest release number in `docs/content/doc/installation/from-binary*.md`