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+---
+id: build-env
+title: Publishing Meshtastic
+sidebar_label: Publishing Meshtastic
+---
+
+This document is a WIP.
+
+If you’d like to do ‘real’ releases with your changes, the procedure is:
+
+## Device
+
+edit version.properties and check it into the root project
+run bin/promote-release.sh - this should cause github to start a release build (see the CI actions)
+edit the draft release text and click publish
+for python: (if any dev wants to take this on, send me a note and I’ll bless you with pypi)
+
+bump the version in setup.py
+run bin/upload-release.sh
+
+## Android
+
+## Python
+
+:::note
+You need permissions in the github project to make a build:::
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