1# For maintainers only
2
3## Responsibilities
4
5Please go through this link [Maintainer Responsibility](https://gist.github.com/abperiasamy/f4d9b31d3186bbd26522)
6
7### Making new releases
8Tag and sign your release commit, additionally this step requires you to have access to MinIO's trusted private key.
9```sh
10$ export GNUPGHOME=/media/${USER}/minio/trusted
11$ git tag -s 4.0.0
12$ git push
13$ git push --tags
14```
15
16### Update version
17Once release has been made update `libraryVersion` constant in `api.go` to next to be released version.
18
19```sh
20$ grep libraryVersion api.go
21      libraryVersion = "4.0.1"
22```
23
24Commit your changes
25```
26$ git commit -a -m "Update version for next release" --author "MinIO Trusted <trusted@min.io>"
27```
28
29### Announce
30Announce 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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32To generate `changelog`
33```sh
34$ git log --no-color --pretty=format:'-%d %s (%cr) <%an>' <last_release_tag>..<latest_release_tag>
35```
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