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# Releasing
Creating a new Session Desktop release is very simple.
1. Bump up the version in `package.json`.
2. Merge all changes required into the `master` branch.
* This will trigger github actions to start building a draft release
3. After github actions has finished building. Go to Release page in the repository.
4. Click on the draft release and change the tag target to `master`.
5. Add in release notes.
6. Generate gpg signatures.
7. Click publish release.
## Notes
Artifacts attached in the release shouldn't be deleted! These include the yml files (latest, latest-mac, latest-linux). These are all necessary to get auto updating to work correctly.
### Mac
Mac currently uses 2 formats `dmg` and `zip`.
We need the `zip` format for auto updating to work correctly.
We also need the `dmg` because on MacOS Catalina, there is a system bug where extracting the artifact `zip` using the default _Archive Utility_ will make it so the extracted application is invalid and it will fail to open. A work around for this is to extract the `zip` using an alternate program such as _The Unarchiver_.
Once this bug is fixed we can go back to using the `zip` format by itself.