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+# Release Checklist
+
+Here are the steps for creating and publishing a new release for `IGListKit`.
+
+- Final review and update of header docs and guides
+- Final review of changelog
+- Regenerate docs
+- Update pod spec version
+- Update xcodeproj version
+- Run `pod install` on all examples (**must happen on FB internal** because of sync issues)
+- Merge `master` into `stable` via cmd-line and push
+- Confirm `stable` is `0|0` [ahead/behind](https://github.com/Instagram/IGListKit/branches)
+- Create [GitHub release](https://github.com/Instagram/IGListKit/releases) from `stable`
+- Paste changelog into GH release notes
+- Publish GitHub release
+- Run `pod lib lint`
+- Push updated podspec: `pod trunk push IGListKit.podspec`
+- Verify new release on [CocoaPods](https://cocoapods.org/pods/IGListKit)
+- Tweet all the tweets