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# Workflow for making a release

1. Update `NEWS.md` to list important changes
2. Check out the `stable` branch, merge with `master`.
3. Update `libmxnet_curr_ver` in `deps/build.jl` to the latest commit SHA (or any proper reference). Using `master` here is not good because future changes in libmxnet might break existing Julia packages.
4. Run tests.
5. Merge master into stable branch.
6. Tag stable branch: `git tag v1.2.3`
7. Push tag to remote: `git push origin <tagname>`
8. Edit the [releases page](https://github.com/dmlc/MXNet.jl/releases)
   to copy the release notes from `NEWS.md` to the newly created release tag.
9. Goto https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl/pulls
   and check `attobot` already make a PR for the release.