# How to tag a new release for a package?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-tag-a-new-release-for-a-package/4078>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package\
**Created:** [June 4, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-tag-a-new-release-for-a-package/4078 "2017-06-04T05:00:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![billmclean](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/billmclean/32/3790_2.png) [@billmclean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/billmclean)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-tag-a-new-release-for-a-package/4078/1 "2017-06-04T05:00:36Z")

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I am unsure of the best way for the owner of an already registered package to release an updated version. Is it sufficient to commit the changes, push them to origin/master and do

julia\> PkgDev.tag(“MyPackage”)

(assuming you just want to bump the patch version number)?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-tag-a-new-release-for-a-package/4078/2 "2017-06-04T05:05:23Z")

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This seems to be a distinct question from the thread you originally posted it in, so I split it off into a new thread.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-tag-a-new-release-for-a-package/4078/3 "2017-06-04T05:29:32Z")

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By far the simplest option is to use [https://github.com/attobot/attobot](https://github.com/attobot/attobot) instead of PkgDev.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-tag-a-new-release-for-a-package/4078/4 "2023-08-10T20:06:15Z")

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Ok, just saw that my last response from 2017 got upvoted. At this point I would actually recommend [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbGKwY\_PWIg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbGKwY_PWIg) as the easiest way to tag a new release for packages 🙂