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# For maintainers only
## Responsibilities
Please go through this link [Maintainer Responsibility ](https://gist.github.com/abperiasamy/f4d9b31d3186bbd26522 )
### Making new releases
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Tag and sign your release commit, additionally this step requires you to have access to MinIO's trusted private key.
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```sh
$ export GNUPGHOME=/media/${USER}/minio/trusted
$ git tag -s 4.0.0
$ git push
$ git push --tags
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```
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### Update version
Once release has been made update `libraryVersion` constant in `api.go` to next to be released version.
```sh
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$ grep libraryVersion api.go
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libraryVersion = "4.0.1"
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```
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Commit your changes
```
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$ git commit -a -m "Update version for next release" --author "MinIO Trusted < trusted @ min . io > "
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```
### Announce
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Announce new release by adding release notes at https://github.com/minio/minio-go/releases from `trusted@min.io` account. Release notes requires two sections `highlights` and `changelog` . Highlights is a bulleted list of salient features in this release and Changelog contains list of all commits since the last release.
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To generate `changelog`
```sh
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$ git log --no-color --pretty=format:'-%d %s (%cr) < %an>' < last_release_tag > ..< latest_release_tag >
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```
