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+# Create a release
+
+- Update to the given version:
+  - meson.build
+  - cargo.toml
+- create a tag on gitlab
+- meson builddir -Dbuildtype=release
+- ninja -C buiddir dist
+- upload the package and the sha256 to gitlab for Flatpak