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title: Maintaining a Fozzie module
section-title: Open source
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docs: true

navgroup: documentation
navsub: open-source
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## Required changes for all pull requests

- Version bump in `package.json` `"version"` section.
- Update the `changelog` file, following the [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) guidelines


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## Publishing changes to npm

See the [Publishing to npm]({{ ../baseUrl }}/documentation/open-source/#publishing-to-npm) section for details.


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## Creating a release on GitHub

- Ensure you have the latest changes in your master branch
- Add a tag in the format `v1.2.3` (semver) — `git tag -m "" v1.2.3`
- Push the tag up to GitHub — `git push origin --tags`
- Go to the repository releases page
- Select the tag which was pushed
- Paste the relevant content from the Changelog into the description textbox
- Click "Publish release"