# Releasing

When releasing a new version, a few things need to happen:

* Update the variable in extension.json
  * `version` attribute in [extension.json]
* commit the version update
* tag the release in git
* push to origin

* upload a new version of the extension to gitlab via
  * create via `tar -cvzf ~/TeamComments-${VERSION}.tar.gz --exclude=.git -C .. TeamComments`
  * create a release from the tag at https://code.librehq.com/ots/mediawiki/TeamComments-/tags/${VERSION}
  * upload the tar.gz to that release