From d2d9db35b444696245901007c8d9824037a90c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Steurer <94206073+asteurer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 15:47:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] docs: document release process

Signed-off-by: Andrew Steurer <94206073+asteurer@users.noreply.github.com>
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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index f0cbfa4..4da9746 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -20,3 +20,10 @@ See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more details.
 Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
 for inclusion in this project by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license,
 shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
+
+## Notes for Maintainers
+
+### Release process
+
+Bump the version field in [Cargo.toml](/Cargo.toml) and the release variable in [main.go](/main.go) (both should be the same), PR that into main, and tag the result. Once the tag has been pushed to main, the [release](/.github/workflows/release.yml) workflow will automatically create the release artifacts.
+