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title: Doing a release

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# Doing a release

1. ensure that the translation task is run
    a. run `lupdate nim-status-client.pro` in the `ui/` directory.
    b. run `lrelease -idbased i18n/*.ts` in the `ui/` directory.
2. update the version
    a. update the `VERSION` file
    b. update the version in `ui/app/AppLayouts/Profile/Sections/AboutContainer.qml`
3. update master
4. checkout a branch of the type `release/<version>` and push

After running in the CI a release build will be created and a draft release created in github

