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+# Releasing a new cli version
+
+- Make sure that main is green before proceeding! Then in the CLI directory, update to latest.
+
+```shell
+git fetch --all
+git rebase origin/main
+```
+
+- Compare the changes from the last release to what is in main. For [example](https://github.com/overmindtech/cli/compare/v1.3.2...main). Following [semver](https://semver.org/) choose your new version. And use it to tag a version, and push it.
+
+```shell
+git tag v0.0.0
+git push origin tag v0.0.0
+```
+
+- Github actions will then run, assuming everything goes green. It will create a new [pull request in overmind/homebrew-overmind](https://github.com/overmindtech/homebrew-overmind/pulls).
+- **DO NOT MERGE THE PR YET** If this PR is green the PR it will require the 'pr-pull' label to be added. It will trigger another github action / check to run. This will automerge the PR and the release is complete.