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Expand Up @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ We release a new version of OpenZeppelin monthly. Release cycles are tracked in
Each release has at least one release candidate published first, intended for community review and any critical fixes that may come out of it. At the moment we leave 1 week between the first release candidate and the final release.

Before starting make sure to verify the following items.
* Your local `master` branch is in sync with your upstream remote.
* Your local `master` branch is in sync with your `upstream` remote (it may have another name depending on your setup).
* Your repo is clean, particularly with no untracked files in the contracts and tests directories. Verify with `git clean -n`.


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## Creating the final release

Make sure to have the latest changes from `upstream` in your local release branch.

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git checkout release-vX.Y.Z
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I'd add a git fetch upstream here, to emphasize the need to be up-to-date with upstream (in case no fetches occured since the release branch was created).

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I don't understand, isn't this exactly what git pull is doing in the next line?

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If there is no local upstream/release-vX.Y.Z, the git checkout command will fail: a previous fetch prevents that.

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Sorry, I still don't understand how this relates to my proposed steps.

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The readme says:

Make sure to have the latest changes from upstream in your local release branch.

However, if the branch was created from a different computer, the one the final release is being made from may have not performed a fetch since then, and will therefore not know about the upstream/release-vX.Y.Z branch, making checkout fail. A previous explicit fetch prevents that.

This is, granted, a somewhat contrived scenario, and I'd expect the releaser to know enough of git to not need this help, but I'd still add it for completeness sake.

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I prefer to leave the snippets simple even if somewhat incomplete, and later automate all of this in a script. Does that sound ok?

git pull upstream
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Change the version string in `package.json`, `package-lock.json` and `ethpm.json` removing the "-rc.R" suffix. Commit these changes and tag the commit as `vX.Y.Z`.
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