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Release Process
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GenPipes team makes three types of releases using the following nomenclature:

Major: version [major number].0.0
Minor: version [major number].[minor].0
Patch: version [major number].[minor].[patch]

Refer to our :ref:`Release Notes Archive<docs_release_notes>` for details.

Source
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Earlier, until release version 5.x, GenPipes used Bitbucket as the source code repository. Starting version 6.x,
GenPipes sources are managed via GitHub.

Generating Builds
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Follow the `Release Instructions <https://github.com/c3g/GenPipes/blob/main/README-release.txt>`_ to .