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@minio.io>" 27``` 28 29### Announce 30Announce new release by adding release notes at https://github.com/minio/minio-go/releases from `trusted@minio.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. 31 32To generate `changelog` 33```sh 34$ git log --no-color --pretty=format:'-%d %s (%cr) <%an>' <last_release_tag>..<latest_release_tag> 35``` 36